| Description |
1 online resource (364 pages) |
| Series |
Cultural Memory in the Present |
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Cultural memory in the present.
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| Contents |
Cover; Series Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Getting Ready to Read Romans; First Part of Romans; First Phase: The Unjust Social Order (1:18-3:20); 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; Cultural Memory in the Present |
| Summary |
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 socialities. Reading Romans as an essay on messianic politics in conversation with ancient and postmodern polit |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Paul, the Apostle, Saint -- Political and social views
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| SUBJECT |
Paul, the Apostle, Saint fast |
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Bible. Romans -- Philosophy
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Bible. Romans fast |
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Justice (Philosophy)
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Justice -- Biblical teaching.
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Justice -- Biblical teaching
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Justice (Philosophy)
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Philosophy
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Political and social views
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780804785990 |
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0804785996 |
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