Subverting the Empire Walsh, Brian J. creator Keesmaat, Sylvia C. text xx Downers Grove, Ill InterVarsity Press 2004 9999 monographic und eng

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256 p. ; 23 cm. Placing Colossians : globalism and postmodernity -- Colossians and disquieted globalism -- Placing Colossians : discerning empire -- Contested fruitfulness in the shadow of empire -- Subversive poetry and contested imagination -- Regimes of truth and the word of truth -- What is truth? -- Faithful improvisation and idolatrous lies -- An ethic of secession -- An ethic of community -- An ethic of liberation -- A suffering ethic. Brian J. Walsh and Sylvia C. Keesmaat Bible. Colossians Social scientific criticism.Globalization Religious aspects Christianity.Rome In the Bible BS2715.6.R65 .W35 2004 97808308273810830827382 231116