Outlaw justice : the Messianic politics of Paul / Theodore W. Jennings, Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jennings, Theodore W., Jr., 1942-

Series:

Cultural memory in the present.

Cultural memory in the present

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Paul, the Apostle, Saint--Political and social views.

Paul.

Bible. Romans--Philosophy.

Bible.

Justice (Philosophy).

Justice--Biblical teaching.

Justice.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2013.

Language Note:

English

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 socialites. Reading Romans as an essay on messianic politics in conversation with ancient and postmodern polit

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Getting Ready to Read Romans; First Part of Romans; First Phase: The Unjust Social Order (1:180 - 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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780804785990

0804785996

OCLC:

830163382