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John and Empire

Initial Explorations

by Prof. Warren Carter (ladonna Kramer Meinders Professor Of New Testament)

  • Hardback
  • 240 pages
  • Publisher: Continuum
  • 16.8 x 24 x 3.8 cm

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In this significant and innovative contribution, Warren Carter explores John's Gospel as a work of imperial negotiation in the context of Ephesus, capital of the Roman province of Asia. Carter employs multiple methods, rejects sectarian scenarios, and builds on other Christian writings and recent studies of diaspora synagogues that combined participationist lifestyles with observance of distinctive practices to argue that imperial negotiation was a contested issue for late first-century Jesus-believers. While a number of Jesus-believers probably lived societally-accommodated lives, John's Gospel employs a "rhetoric of distance" to urge much less accommodation and to create an alternative "anti-society" for followers of Jesus crucified by the empire but vindicated by God.In addition to establishing this tense historical setting, chapters identify various arenas and strategies of imperial negotiation in wide-ranging discussions of the gospel's genre, plot, Christological titles, developing traditions, eternal life, the image of God as father, ecclesiology, Jesus' conflict with Pilate, and resurrection and ascension.Carter has explored interactions between the emerging Christian movement and the Roman Empire in various articles and book-length studies such as Matthew and the Margins (Orbis), Matthew and Empire (Trinity Press International/Continuum), Pontius Pilate: Portraits of a Roman Governor (Liturgical), and The Roman Empire and the New Testament (Abingdon).
John and Empire and Matthew and the Margins
Matthew and the MarginsJohn and Empire

  • Author

    Prof. Warren Carter (ladonna Kramer Meinders Professor Of New Testament)

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Continuum

  • Published

    July 2008

  • Weight

    840g

  • Page Count

    240

  • Dimensions

    16.8 x 24 x 3.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9780567027030

  • ISBN-10

    0567027031

  • Eden Code

    1152028

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