Scripture, Creed, and Empire: Negotiating the Challenges to Find Norming Norms
Given the recent (since 9/11) widespread attention across academic disciplines paid to the theme of Empire, the author considers a primary question which emerges: What might we learn from and about the Bible which was composed in the context of Empire and has functioned in communities which both ben...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
[2015]
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Dialog
Year: 2015, Volume: 54, Issue: 1, Pages: 72-79 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CG Christianity and Politics HC New Testament KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity NBF Christology SA Church law; state-church law |
| Further subjects: | B
Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed
B Christology B hidden transcripts, power B Empire B Gospel B imperial rule |
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| Summary: | Given the recent (since 9/11) widespread attention across academic disciplines paid to the theme of Empire, the author considers a primary question which emerges: What might we learn from and about the Bible which was composed in the context of Empire and has functioned in communities which both benefited from and suffered under imperial rule? Attention is given to critical re-readings of the New Testament in light of the reality of the Roman Empire and its overriding, pervasive imperial rule. Consideration is given to the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed (325/381 B.C.E.) and Christology for hidden transcripts of the radical alternative message of the Gospel vis-à-vis the power of emperor and Empire. |
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| ISSN: | 1540-6385 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Dialog
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/dial.12156 |