Scripture and Resistance (Theology in the Age of Empire) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1978703570 ISBN 13: 9781978703575

Verlag: Fortress Academic, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

Resistance against unjust (wicked) cultures and imperial powers is at the heart of scripture. In many cases, the resistance is waged against external systems or the misappropriation of scriptural texts and traditions. In some cases, however, scripture resists oppressive cultures and powers that it also requires, certifies and protects. At other times, and in different settings, the minders of scripture speak against the abusive cultures and power systems that they inherited and whose benefits they milk.

Scripture and Resistance contains reflections by authors from East, West, South, and North - on resistance and the Christian scriptures regarding a rainbow of concerns: the colonial legacies of the Bible; the people (especially native and indigenous people) who were subjugated and minoritized for the sake of the Bible; the courage for resistance among ordinary and normal people, and the opportunities that arise from their realities and struggles; the imperializing tendencies that lurk behind so-called traditional biblical scholarship; the strategies of and energies in post- and de-colonial criticisms; the Bible as a profitable product, and a site of struggle; and the multiple views or perspectives in the Bible about empire and resistance. In other words, the contributors, as a collective, affirm that the Bible contains (pun intended) resistance.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Jione Havea is research fellow with Trinity Methodist Theological College (Aotearoa New Zealand) and with the Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture (Charles Sturt University, Australia).

Jin Young Choi is professor of New Testament and Christian Origins and the Baptist Missionary Training School Professorial Chair for Biblical Studiesat Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School and author of Postcolonial Discipleship of Embodiment: An Asian and Asian American Feminist Reading of the Gospel of Mark.

Tat-siong Benny Liew is Class of 1956 Professor in New Testament Studies at the College of the Holy Cross.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Fortress Academic
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1978703570
• ISBN 13: 9781978703575
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 212
• Herausgeber: Havea Jione
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: preigu GmbH & Co. KG; mail@preigu.de; ; Lengericher Landstr. 19; Osnabrück; Niedersachsen; 49078; Deutschland