Politics of Parousia

Politics of Parousia

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  • Author: Tat-siong Liew
  • Publisher: BRILL
  • ISBN: 9004493778
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 207

This volume moves literary criticism of the Gospels further into the socio-political struggle for liberation - particularly, into the realm of colonial/postcolonial discourse. Taking seriously the thought that Mark's Gospel was written under Roman colonization, and using "inter(con)textuality" as an underlying theory, it examines the relation between Mark's story of Jesus and colonial politics, especially Mark's emphasis on the parousia and his constructions of colonial subjects. It argues that Mark's apocalyptic simultaneously resists and reinscribes colonial ideology in terms of three subject-positions and subject-matters: authority, agency, and gender. Juxtaposing apocalyptic and politics, dissidence and duplication as well as Chinese American narratives and the Markan text, this volume seeks to rethink our struggle for social change and the relationship between cultural politics and Gospel studies.


Postcolonial Discipleship of Embodiment

Postcolonial Discipleship of Embodiment

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  • Author: Jin Young Choi
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 1137526106
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 219

Jin Young Choi rereads discipleship in the Gospel of Mark from a postcolonial feminist perspective, developing an Asian and Asian American hermeneutics of phronesis. Colonized subjects perceive Jesus' body as phantasmic. Discipleship means embodying the mystery of this body while engaging with invisible, placeless and voiceless others.


Christus Militans

Christus Militans

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  • Author: Gabriella Gelardini
  • Publisher: BRILL
  • ISBN: 9004309349
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 997

In Christus Militans knüpft Gabriella Gelardini an Interpretationen an, die das Markusevangelium im Kontext des jüdisch-römischen Krieges und des Aufstiegs der Flavier interpretieren. Von Interesse sind darin aber nicht nur „ideologische Macht- oder Herrschaftsdiskurse,“ sondern insbesondere auch die militärischen Zusammenhänge und die Kriegssemantik im engeren Sinn. Dies erfolgt eingedenk der großen Bedeutung, die das Militär und der Krieg für die Herstellung und Aufrechterhaltung von Herrschaft in der Antike hatten, besonders bei Dynastiewechseln.


The Postcolonial Biblical Reader

The Postcolonial Biblical Reader

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  • Author: R. S. Sugirtharajah
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
  • ISBN: 1405155388
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 332

This wide-ranging Reader provides a comprehensive survey of the interaction between postcolonial criticism and biblical studies. Examines how various empires such as the Persian and Roman affected biblical narratives. Demonstrates how different biblical writers such as Paul, Matthew and Mark handled the challenges of empire. Includes examples of the practical application of postcolonial criticism to biblical texts. Considers contemporary issues such as diaspora, race, representation and territory. Editorial commentary draws out the key points to be made and creates a coherent narrative.


The Politics of time. Introduction to Carl Schmitt’s Political Thought

The Politics of time. Introduction to Carl Schmitt’s Political Thought

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  • Author: Miguel Saralegui
  • Publisher: Ed. Universidad de Cantabria
  • ISBN: 841788842X
  • Category : Political Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 288

Carl Schmitt is the last thinker to provide a complete, original definition of politics. His work influences many debates in contemporary political theory through a collection of concepts he created: political theology, the katechon, friend and enemy. Despite how influential his ideas are, they tend to be employed metaphorically, and sometimes incorrectly. This miscalculation is due to Carl Schmitt himself, who never gave us a final, complete version of his political thought, or even of some of his most famous concepts. In this book, I aim to reconstruct his political thought using three key concepts: political theology, the concept of the political, and the theory of modernity. To do so, I have consulted all his published works, but also the archival documents, in particular those with ties to Spain, which had previously received little attention. This reconstruction offers readers a qualitative introduction to Schmitt’s political thought that aims to blend logical clarity with document-based evidence.


The Politics of the Gospel

The Politics of the Gospel

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  • Author: Jean-Marie Paupert
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  • Category : Christianity and politics
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 202


Postcolonial Resistance and Asian Theology

Postcolonial Resistance and Asian Theology

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  • Author: Simon Shui-Man Kwan
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1134702612
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 170

Presenting a fundamental re-thinking of Asian theology, this book focuses on theological indigenization in Asia in light of the postcolonial theory of resistance advanced by Homi K. Bhabha, among others. Two types of anti-colonialist resistance within Asian theologies are identified and interrogated. The first is nationalistic in kind, operating from a theological language that is binaristic and oppositional. The second is illustrated by that which was mounted by the three Chinese Christian thinkers whose indigenous theologies are analysed in this book as case studies. This second kind, postcolonial in its character, is characterized by collaboration rather than antagonistic binarism. In spite of much dissimilarity between these two kinds of resistance, the book argues that they are similarly anti-colonialist, and both can be equally valid in resisting colonial forces. Given that the binarism and antagonism imbedded in the Asian theological movement are historically contingent, and that the sole reliance on this resistance has made the movement self-ensnaring, the book suggests that the Asian theological movement widen its choice of colonial-resistant strategies. Drawing attention to the otherwise subtle politics of the Asian theological indigenization discourse, this book addresses the relationship between postcolonialism and Asia contextual theology, and is of interest to students and scholars of Asian Religion and Philosophy.


Agamben and Politics

Agamben and Politics

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  • Author: Sergei Prozorov
  • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
  • ISBN: 0748676228
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 208

Tracing how the logic of inoperativity works in the domains of language, law, history and humanity, 'Agamben and Politics' systematically introduces the fundamental concepts of Agamben's political thought and a critically interprets his insights in the wider context of contemporary philosophy.


Mark’s Gospel

Mark’s Gospel

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  • Author: C. Clifton Black
  • Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
  • ISBN: 146746094X
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 417

A culmination of contemporary scholarship on the Gospel of Mark. A preeminent scholar of the Gospel of Mark, C. Clifton Black has been studying and publishing on the Gospel for over thirty years. This new collection brings together his most pivotal work and fresh investigations to constitute an all-in-one compendium of contemporary Markan scholarship and exegesis. The essays included cover scriptural commentary, historical studies, literary analysis, theological argument, and pastoral considerations. Among other topics Black explores: • the Gospel’s provenance, authorship, and attribution • the significance of redaction criticism in Markan studies • recent approaches to the Gospel’s interpretation • literary and rhetorical analyses of the Gospel’s narrative • the kingdom of God and its revelation in Jesus • Mark’s theology of creation, suffering, and discipleship • the Gospel of Mark’s relationship to the Gospel of John and Paul’s letters • the passion in Mark as the Gospel’s recapitulation Scholars, advanced students, and clergy alike will consider this book an indispensable resource for understanding the foundational Gospel.


Writing on the Gospel of Mark

Writing on the Gospel of Mark

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  • Author: W.R. Telford
  • Publisher: BRILL
  • ISBN: 9004397566
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 595

This thorough manual for advanced students and their supervisors, and anyone researching or writing on the Gospel of Mark, is the opening volume in an important new series of Guides to Advanced Biblical Research. Together with an essay on the current state of research and a discussion of the future of Markan study, it provides a chrestomathy of samples of Markan research together with a review of recent dissertations and a full, annotated bibliography.