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Jennings Theodore W |
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Titolo |
Outlaw justice [[electronic resource] ] : the Messianic politics of Paul / / Theodore W. Jennings, Jr |
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Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, c2013 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (257 p.) |
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Collana |
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Cultural memory in the present |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Justice (Philosophy) |
Justice - Biblical teaching |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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