Jesus Is Lord, Caesar is not evaluating empire in New Testament studies

The New Testament is immersed in the often hostile world of the Roman Empire, but its relationship to that world is complex. What is meant by Jesus' call to "render unto Caesar" his due, when Luke subversively heralds the arrival of a Savior and Lord who is not Caesar, but Christ? Is...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: McKnight, Scot (-), Modica, Joseph B.
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Downers Grove, IL : InterVarsity Press [2013]
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b44983050*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / by Andy Crouch
  • Introduction / Scot McKnight and Joseph B. Modica
  • We have no king but Caesar: Roman imperial ideology and the imperial cult / David Nystron
  • Anti-imperial rhetoric in the New Testament / Judith A. Diehl
  • Matthew / Joel Willitts
  • The gospel of Luke and the Roman Empire / Dean Pinter
  • John's gospel and the Roman imperial context: an evaluation of recent proposals / Christopher W. Skinner
  • Proclaiming another king named Jesus?: the Acts of the apostles and the Roman imperial cult(s) / Drew J. Strait
  • "One who will arise to rule over the nations": Paul's letter to the Romans and the Roman empire / Michael F. Bird
  • Philippians and empire: Paul's engagement with imperialism and the imperial cult / Lynn H. Cohick
  • Colossians and the rhetoric of empire: a new battle zone / Allan R. Bevere
  • Something old, something new: revelation and empire / Dwight D. Sheets
  • Conclusion / Scot McKnight and Joseph B. Modica.