The strategic arousal of emotion in John's visions of Roman Imperialism
Using the near-contemporary insights of rhetorical theorists concerning the strategic evocation of emotion, this essay displays how John arouses feelings of gratitude, awe, indignation, and enmity throughout the visions of Revelation. John re-directs feelings of awe and gratitude toward God and the...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2008
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Neotestamentica
Year: 2008, Volume: 42, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-34 |
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| Summary: | Using the near-contemporary insights of rhetorical theorists concerning the strategic evocation of emotion, this essay displays how John arouses feelings of gratitude, awe, indignation, and enmity throughout the visions of Revelation. John re-directs feelings of awe and gratitude toward God and the Messiah, resisting dominant cultural impulses to direct these feelings toward Rome and the emperor. He draws attention to the ways that Rome, the emperors, and local promoters of imperial cult violate God's just requirements and lure or pressure others to violate the same, nurturing emotional responses of enmity and indignation toward Roman imperialism and its local manifestations. This serves, in turn, to promote critical distance between the Christian disciples and the domination systems of Roman imperialism and the mechanisms for the legitimation of the same, countering other voices in the churches urging a lowering of boundaries and greater degrees of cooperation with Rome's economic, political, and ideological structures. |
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| ISSN: | 2518-4628 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Neotestamentica
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.10520/EJC83305 |