RT Article
T1 Power As Service: A Critical Reading of Power from the New Testament
JF Concilium
IS 3
SP 32
OP 41
A1 Reimer, Ivoni Richter 1959-
A1 Reimer, Haroldo 1959-
LA English
PB SCM Press
YR 2020
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1732447012
AB Power is understood as a set of power relationships. We seek to highlight that within the context of these relations in the Roman empire in the first century, the texts of the New Testament mostly present the perspective of a counter-power or heterotopy. This is expressed through the concept and experience of the Kingdom of God. In a set of texts that presuppose and critically analyse the dominant power, the exercise of power is presented as diakonia, especially in relation to the most vulnerable people. Jesus is the model for this service-power, which empowers men and women in ekklēsíai to follow the Lord in faithfulness.
K1 Bible. New Testament
K1 BIBLICAL teaching on the Kingdom of God
K1 Faith
K1 Kingdom of God
K1 Power (Christian theology)
K1 Power (Social sciences)
K1 Rome
K1 Service (Theology)