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Reading scripture as a political act : essays on the theopolitical interpretation of the Bible /
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TextPublication details: Minneapolis Fortress Press ©2015Description: xii, 321 pages ; 23 cmISBN: - 9781451479638
- 1451479638
- 220.8/32 23
- BS680.P45 R437 2015
Contents:
Foreword / Stephen E. Fowl -- Introduction -- 1. Empires and enemies : re-reading lament as politics / Rebekah Eklund -- 2. The politics of friendship in the Gospel of John / Peter Dula -- 3. "Before the eyes of their own God" : Susanna, rape law, and testimony in City of God 1.19 / Melanie Webb -- 4. The politics of fasting in Basil of Caesarea / Mark DelCogliano -- 5. Contemplating Genesis 1 as a political act in late antiquity / Daniel Wade McClain -- 6. The apocalyptic figure of Francis's stigmatized body : the politics of scripture in Bonaventure's meditative treatises / Travis E. Ables -- 7. "For he is our peace" : Thomas Aquinas on Christ as cause of peace in the City of Saints / Matthew A. Tapie -- 8. War and the ethics of evangelization : the Great Commission in sixteenth-century Spanish political thought / David M. Lantigua -- 9. The unexceptional king : political theology in Shakespeare's Richard II / Anthony D. Baker -- 10. Ressourcement and resistance : la nouvelle théologie, the Fathers, and the Bible, against fascism / Kevin L. Hughes -- 11. Inhabiting scripture : Wesley's theopolitical reading of the Bible / D. Stephen Long -- 12. The scriptural logic of Barmen and the Jewish question / Susannah Ticciati -- 13. The end of sacrifice : John Howard Yoder's critique of capital punishment / John C. Nugent -- 14. A broken body reads Mark / Craig Hovey.
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Foreword / Stephen E. Fowl -- Introduction -- 1. Empires and enemies : re-reading lament as politics / Rebekah Eklund -- 2. The politics of friendship in the Gospel of John / Peter Dula -- 3. "Before the eyes of their own God" : Susanna, rape law, and testimony in City of God 1.19 / Melanie Webb -- 4. The politics of fasting in Basil of Caesarea / Mark DelCogliano -- 5. Contemplating Genesis 1 as a political act in late antiquity / Daniel Wade McClain -- 6. The apocalyptic figure of Francis's stigmatized body : the politics of scripture in Bonaventure's meditative treatises / Travis E. Ables -- 7. "For he is our peace" : Thomas Aquinas on Christ as cause of peace in the City of Saints / Matthew A. Tapie -- 8. War and the ethics of evangelization : the Great Commission in sixteenth-century Spanish political thought / David M. Lantigua -- 9. The unexceptional king : political theology in Shakespeare's Richard II / Anthony D. Baker -- 10. Ressourcement and resistance : la nouvelle théologie, the Fathers, and the Bible, against fascism / Kevin L. Hughes -- 11. Inhabiting scripture : Wesley's theopolitical reading of the Bible / D. Stephen Long -- 12. The scriptural logic of Barmen and the Jewish question / Susannah Ticciati -- 13. The end of sacrifice : John Howard Yoder's critique of capital punishment / John C. Nugent -- 14. A broken body reads Mark / Craig Hovey.
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