Reading the Bible in an Age of Crisis : Political Exegesis for a New Day /

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We live in an age in which economic, ecological, and political crises are not the exception, but the rule. The Cold War polarities that shaped an earlier "political exegesis" have been replaced; Bruce Worthington argues that increasingly, crisis is the engine of a global "turbo-capita...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Worthington, Bruce (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2015
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Bible > Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible > Hermeneutics.
Church and social problems > Biblical teaching.
Church and the world > Biblical teaching.
Christianity and politics > Biblical teaching.
Crises > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • part I. Global crisis and the practice of Biblical studies
  • 1. Introduction : political exegesis for a new day / Bruce Worthington
  • 2. Reading the Bible with the poor : building a social movement, led by the poor, as a united social force / Liz Theoharis and Willie Baptist
  • 3. Occupying my desk / Neil Elliott
  • 4. Solidarity! Conditions apply / Christina Petterson
  • part II. global crisis and the First Testament
  • 5. On the feasibility of subsistence economics / Roland Boer
  • 6. Occupying the Temple in ancient Judah : resisting debt abuses, from Jerusalem to Wall Street / Matthew J.M. Coomber
  • 7. The global crisis of debt in context : Biblical and postcolonial reflections on the ideology of empire / Robert Wafawanaka
  • 8. Food, power, and ecological hermeneutics : reading Joseph with Monsanto / Gregory P. Fewster
  • part III. Global crisis and the Second Testament
  • 9. Homelessness, neoliberalism, and Jesus' "decision" to go rogue : an analysis of Matthew 4:12-25 / Robert J. Myles
  • 10. Romans 13:1-7 : with an eye to global capital / Bruce Worthington
  • 11. Occupy Solomon's portico : on the community of goods in the Longue Duree / Jonathan Bernier
  • 12. On trying to praise the mutilated world : reading Revelation in the midst of ecological crisis / Ryan L. Hansen
  • 13. Why bother with Biblical studies? / Richard Horsley.

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