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Theodore W. Jennings - Outlaw Justice: The Messianic Politics of Paul - 9780804785167 - V9780804785167
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Outlaw Justice: The Messianic Politics of Paul

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Description for Outlaw Justice: The Messianic Politics of Paul Hardback. This is the first book to read Paul's Letter to the Romans as a sustained essay in (radical) political philosophy. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HRAB; HRCG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 431.

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 political theory challenges the stereotype of Paul as a reactionary theologian who "invented" Christianity and demonstrates ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Series
Cultural Memory in the Present
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804785167
SKU
V9780804785167
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About Theodore W. Jennings
Theodore W. Jennings, Jr. is Professor of Biblical and Philosophical Theology at the Chicago Theological Seminary. His previous books include Reading Derrida/Thinking Paul: On Justice (Stanford, 2006) and Transforming Atonement: A Political Theology of the Cross (2009).

Reviews for Outlaw Justice: The Messianic Politics of Paul
"Jennings presents a bold and important commentary on Paul's letter to the Romans. It emerges at a time when philosophical discussions of biblical texts have become both remarkably common and remarkably significant bearers of pressing contemporary intellectual problems. This book is timely, provocative, and original."—Ward Blanton, University of Kent

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