Outlaw Justice: The Messianic Politics of Paul - Rilegato

Jennings, Theodore W., Jr.

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ISBN 10: 0804785163 ISBN 13: 9780804785167

Casa editrice: Stanford Univ Pr, 2013

Riassunto

This book offers a close reading of Romans that treats Paul as a radical political thinker by showing the relationship between Paul's perspective and that of secular political theorists. Turning to both ancient political philosophers (Plato, Aristotle, and Cicero) and contemporary post-Marxists (Agamben, Badiou, Derrida, and Žižek), Jennings presents Romans as a sustained argument for a new sort of political thinking concerned with the possibility and constitution of just socialities.

Reading Romans as an essay on messianic politics in conversation with ancient and postmodern political theory challenges the stereotype of Paul as a reactionary theologian who "invented" Christianity and demonstrates his importance for all, regardless of religious affiliation or academic guild, who dream and work for a society based on respect, rather than domination, division, and death. In the current context of unjust global empires constituted by avarice, arrogance, and violence, Jennings finds in Paul a stunning vision for creating just societies outside the law.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Theodore W. Jennings, Jr. is Professor of Biblical and Philosophical Theology at the Chicago Theological Seminary. His previous books include Reading Derrida/Thinking Paul: On Justice (Stanford, 2006) and Transforming Atonement: A Political Theology of the Cross (2009).

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Book by Jennings Jr Theodore

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Stanford Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0804785163
• ISBN 13: 9780804785167
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 240