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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463234403321

Autore

Jennings Theodore W

Titolo

Outlaw justice [[electronic resource] ] : the Messianic politics of Paul / / Theodore W. Jennings, Jr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, c2013

ISBN

0-8047-8599-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Collana

Cultural memory in the present

Disciplina

227/.106

Soggetti

Justice (Philosophy)

Justice - Biblical teaching

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Getting Ready to Read Romans; First Part of Romans; First Phase: The Unjust Social Order (1:180 - 3:20); Second Phase: The Coming of Messianic Justice (3:21 - 5:21); Third Phase A: Before and After (6:1 - 7:6); Third Phase B: The Great Transition (7:7 - 8:39); Fourth Phase: Divine Promise and Improvisation (9:1 - 11:36); Fifth Phase: The Corporate Improvisation of Justice in the Now-Time (12:1 - 15:13); Coda; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/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 socialites. Reading Romans as an essay on messianic politics in conversation with ancient and postmodern polit