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Reading the Bible in an Age of Crisis

Political Exegesis for a New Day

by Bruce Worthington

  • Paperback
  • 272 pages
  • Publisher: Fortress Press,U.S.
  • 15.4 x 22.8 x 1.8 cm

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We live in an age in which economic, ecological, and political crises are not the exception, but the rule. The Cold War polarities that shaped an earlier "political exegesis" have been replaced; Bruce Worthington argues that increasingly, crisis is the engine of a global "turbo-capitalism." In this volume, edited by Worthington, biblical scholars and activists describe and exemplify the shape of a biblical interpretation that takes contemporary crisis seriously as its most important context. Succinct opening essays summarize the salient aspects of our critical situation, especially in relation to the dominance of capitalism and its pervasive values; in later parts, contributions address themes of economic, political, and environmental crisis in dialogue with texts from the First and Second Testaments. Throughout the volume, the authors are careful to describe the basis for making interpretive analogies across historical, cultural, and socioeconomic distances between the world of the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, and our own. Richard A. Horsley writes a postscript pointing to next steps in political interpretation.
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  • Author

    Bruce Worthington

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Fortress Press,U.S.

  • Published

    August 2015

  • Weight

    613g

  • Page Count

    272

  • Dimensions

    15.4 x 22.8 x 1.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9781451482867

  • ISBN-10

    1451482868

  • Eden Code

    4330173

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