Colossians Remixed Subverting the Empire

Name: Colossians Remixed Subverting the Empire
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ISBN: 9780830827381

ISBN-10: 0830827382

ISBN-13: 9780830827381

Edition: 2004

Authors: Brian J. Walsh, Sylvia C. Keesmaat

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Have we really heard the message of Colossians? Is this New Testament book just another religious text whose pretext is an ideological grab for dominating power? Reading Colossians in context, ancient and contemporary, can perhaps give us new ears to hear.In this innovative and refreshing book Brian J. Walsh and Sylvia C. Keesmaat explain our own sociocultural context to then help us get into the world of the New Testament and get a sense of the power of the gospel as it addressed those who lived in Colossae two thousand years ago. Their reading presents us with a radical challenge from the apostle Paul for today.Drawing together biblical scholarship with a passion for authentic lives that…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Publication date: 10/4/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.85" tall
Weight: 0.946



Preface



Context Remixed: Colossians and Empire



Placing Ourselves: Globalization and Postmodernity



Colossians and Disquieted Globalization



Placing Colossians: Discerning Empire



Contested Fruitfulness in the Shadow of Empire



Truth Remixed: Contested Imaginations



Subversive Poetry and Contested Imagination



Regimes of Truth and the Word of Truth



What Is Truth?



Faithful Improvisation and Idolatrous Lies



Praxis Remixed: Subversive Ethics



An Ethic of Secession



An Ethic of Community



An Ethic of Liberation



A Suffering Ethic


Bibliography


Author Index


Subject Index


Scripture Index