Download or read book Apostle to the Conquered paperback edition written by Davina C. Lopez and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Apostle to the Conquered reveals the subversive heart of Paul's theology, reframing his "conversion" in terms of "consciousness," and his exhortations as a politics of the new creation.
Download or read book Apostle to the Conquered written by Davina C. Lopez and published by Paul in Critical Contexts. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What did Paul mean by identifying himself as "apostle to the nations"? Davina C. Lopez finds the surprising answer in the way the Roman Empire depicted the relationship between conquering and conquered peoples in myths, inscriptions, and especially in the visual repertoire of statues and reliefs found in every Roman city. While Roman power was represented as aggressive and masculine, conquered peoples were systematically represented by images of helpless women. Lopez uses this key to unlock the themes of Paul's apostleship in a gender-critical "re-imagination" of his mission. Tracing themes of conquest and domination throughout sources contemporary with Paul, Lopez shows that Paul's language of "the nations" would have been heard by his contemporaries as confronting the Roman ideology of power and expressing solidarity with defeated peoples. Apostle to the Conquered reveals the subversive heart of Paul's theology, reframing his "conversion" in terms of "consciousness", and his exhortations as a politics of the new creation.
Download or read book The Arrogance of Nations paperback edition written by Neil Elliott and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elliott offers a fresh and surprising reinterpretation of Paul's letter to the Romans in the context of Roman imperial ideology, bringing to the text the latest insights from classical studies, rhetorical criticism, postcolonial criticism, and people's history. By setting the letter alongside Roman texts (Cicero, Virgil, the Res Gestae of Augustus, Seneca, poets from the age of Nero, as well as later historians and satirists), Elliott provides a dramatic new reading of the letter as Paul's confrontation with the arrogance of empire—and an emerging Christianity already tempted by the seductive ideology of imperial power.
Download or read book Outlaw Justice written by Theodore W. Jennings , Jr. and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 his importance for all, regardless of religious affiliation or academic guild, who dream and work for a society based on respect, rather than domination, division, and death. In the current context of unjust global empires constituted by avarice, arrogance, and violence, Jennings finds in Paul a stunning vision for creating just societies outside the law.
Download or read book Apostles of the Alps written by Tait Keller and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though the Alps may appear to be a peaceful place, the famed mountains once provided the backdrop for a political, environmental, and cultural battle as Germany and Austria struggled to modernize. Tait Keller examines the mountains' threefold role in transforming the two countries, as people sought respite in the mountains, transformed and shaped them according to their needs, and over time began to view them as national symbols and icons of individualism. In the mid-nineteenth century, the Alps were regarded as a place of solace from industrial development and the stresses of urban life. Soon, however, mountaineers, or the so-called apostles of the Alps, began carving the crags to suit their whims, altering the natural landscape with trails and lodges, and seeking to modernize and nationalize the high frontier. Disagreements over the meaning of modernization opened the mountains to competing agendas and hostile ambitions. Keller examines the ways in which these opposing approaches corresponded to the political battles, social conflicts, culture wars, and environmental crusades that shaped modern Germany and Austria, placing the Alpine borderlands at the heart of the German question of nationhood.
Download or read book Conquest and Glory written by Rev. Thomas W. Keinath and published by Outreach, Incorporated (DBA Equip Press). This book was released on 2018-07-27 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through this verse-by-verse study of the Book of Revelation, Conquest & Glory offers, both, biblical insights and practical life application. In this first of two volumes, the author has included a comprehensive introduction to the Apocalypse, careful exposition of Chapters 1-7, and a textual concordance with theological overview.
Download or read book Jerusalem to Rome the Acts of the Apostles written by Charles Fremont Sitterly and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ... Ill translation and commentary A. the jewish period--chapters I-vii From The Ascension Of Christ Until Stephen's Martyrdom. A. D. 30 To A. D. 33 chapter I introduction and preparation commentary Paragraph i. Luke's Preface. Verses 1-5. The author, whom we account with most to have been Luke, the writer of the Third Gospel, relates the present work to that which had preceded it both by referring to the former as "first" and by describing it as giving a narrative of "all the things which Jesus began to do and teach until the day of His Ascension." The book now submitted to Theophilus repeats for introduction the last scene of the former work, that of the Ascension, and thus gives double emphasis and prominence to this great event. He makes the total period of forty days from the resurrection forward but one progressive phase of the Lord's Ascension, as does Christ himself in His remark to Mary Magdalene in John xx, 17; and Paul often, as in Eph. iv, 8-10; Phil, iii, 1-12; Col. iii, 1. As before His passion, so here Luke indicates that the chief theme of the Master's discourse was the Kingdom of God, the supreme theme of profitable thought. In the incarnation the Kingdom drew near and John the Baptist sealed it in a baptism of water. At the Ascension it was consummated and was sealed by the Father in the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Thus, in this brief Preface, Luke has given us the key to his twofold treatment, in his former and latter treatise, of the highest purpose and plan of God, Father, Son, and Spirit, to establish once and for all the reign of the Triune God upon earth. The Gospel prepared the way; the Acts enters upon the campaign of conquest. Paragraph
Download or read book Paul The Apostle written by Robert E. Picirilli and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 1986-10-08 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Except for the Lord Himself,no single figure has done more for the Christian faith.” If you want to understand Christianity, you need to understand Paul. But with so many books on the apostle, where do you start? Paul the Apostle is the ideal choice if you want a solid understanding of Paul’s life, ministry, and writings without getting weighed down with minutia. Author Robert E. Picirilli, who taught college courses on Paul for over twenty-five years, found that most books on the apostle were either too technical or too basic, so he wrote a book that strikes a happy medium. It offers: A profile of Paul in his historical and cultural context Outlines and explanations of his missionary journeys Introductions and brief analyses of each of his epistles Useful for individual study or as a textbook (as it is in many universities today), Paul the Apostle is a great one-stop study of the man who wrote half the New Testament, spread the gospel to the heart of the known world, and gave his life for the Kingdom.
Download or read book Postcolonial Theologies written by Catherine Keller and published by Chalice Press. This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A theology in tune with postcolonial theory has the potential to creatively inform and transform ecclesial practice. Focusing on the relation of theology to postcolonial theory, Postcolonial Theologies brings together a wide diversity of authors, many of them fresh and exciting theological voices, in essays that are stunningly creative and prophetically lucid. All essays are theologically constructive, not merely deconstructive or critical, in their visions for Christianity. Forming a sort of doctrinal landscape, they emerge under the themes of theological anthropology shaped by ethnicity, class, and privilege; a Christology that intersects the claims of Christ and empire; and a Cosmology that imagines a postcolonial world.
Download or read book Quest for the Historical Apostles written by W. Brian Shelton and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories and contributions of the apostles provide an important entrée into church history. This comprehensive historical and literary introduction uncovers their lives and legacies, underscoring the apostles' impact on the growth of the early church. The author collects and distills the histories, legends, symbols, and iconography of the original twelve and locates figures such as Paul, Peter, and John in the broader context of the history of the apostles. He also explores the continuing story of the gospel mission and the twelve disciples beyond the New Testament.
Download or read book The Supreme Conquest written by William Lonsdale Watkinson and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The First to Follow written by John R. Claypool and published by Church Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By studying those whom Jesus selected as apostles and what he did for them, to them, with them, and through them, we can learn much about how we experience the holy in our own day. This book is about those apostles, their relationships with Jesus and with each other and what the dynamics of that community can teach us.
Download or read book The Supreme Conquest and Other Sermons Preached in America written by W. L. Watkinson and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-24 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book FDR s 12 Apostles written by Hal Vaughan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2006-10-01 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteen months before the attack on Pearl Harbor, FDR sent twelve "vice consuls" to Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia on a secret mission. Their objective? To prepare the groundwork for what eventually became Operation TORCH, the Allied invasion of North Africa that repelled the Nazis and also enabled the liberation of Italy. This spy network included an ex-Cartier jewel salesman and wine merchant, a madcap Harvard anthropologist, a Parisian playboy who ran with Hemingway, ex-French Foreign Legionnaires and Paris bankers, and a WWI hero. Based on recently declassified foreign records, as well as the memoirs of Ridgeway Brewster Knight (one of the twelve “apostles”), this fast-paced historical account gives the first behind-the-scenes look at FDR’s top-secret plan. .
Download or read book A Time for Apostles written by Michael T Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-21 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a walk with the first apostles. It is a journey through the bedrock of some of the principal truths that gave life to their mission to begin the Church according to the indications of Jesus. This is a story of men and women answering a call they heard one day from Jesus, a call that brought them far from their homes, to new places and preaching new things. Like every Christian call, it is ultimately a love story. The different sections in this book revolve around the experience of the first apostles. They were called by Christ, spent three years at his side, and then were sent out to spend the rest of their days in ceaseless labor for the Kingdom. Called - Formed - Sent These three concepts will be the roadmap throughout this book. It is a journey from disciple to apostle.
Download or read book After Acts written by Bryan Litfin and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 2015-01-16 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What really happened after Acts? If you’ve ever wondered what happened to the biblical characters after Acts—from the well-known Matthew to the lesser-known Bartholomew—then this book is for you. Join Dr. Bryan Litfin as he guides you through Scripture and other ancient literature to sift fact from fiction, real-life from legend. Skillfully researched and clearly written, After Acts is as accurate as it is engaging. Gain a window into the religious milieu of the ancient and medieval church. Unearth artifacts and burial sites. Learn what really happened to your favorite characters and what you should truly remember them for. Did Paul ever make it to Spain? Was he beheaded in Rome? Is it true that Peter was crucified upside down? Was the Virgin Mary really bodily assumed into heaven? The book of Acts ends at chapter 28. But its characters lived on.
Download or read book The Incarnation written by Arthur Telling and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-09 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seven incarnations of the Godhead make up an incarnational round that began in the 1st century BC. We are today at the seventh round personality. Cleopatra of Alexandria, the Last Egyptian pharaoh, was the first personality of the seven in this incarnational age. The historical written record of this early time is incomplete and unreliable. Historians with great effort effect to sort what is fact from myth, but the truth may be lost and long forgotten. A second source of knowledge can be tapped from the inner world, and missing key pieces of the puzzle accessed. "The Incarnation" effects to do this, with astonishing result. Spanning a timeline from the 1st century BC to 625 AD and beyond, in the genre of a novel based on a true story, the truth of the Creator Godhead is told. The first century Western canon begins with a budding new empire, Rome, arising to be the dominant civilization in a world of war and chaos. The Jewish holy city of Jerusalem has been conquered and is under Rome's control. The Godhead's first personality, Cleopatra, tells her story and the story of Jesus, Apostle Paul, and of a struggle that culminates with the new Emperor Constantine and a new Roman era of Christianity, in her own words. It is quite different from the myths of recorded history, and sets the stage for a surprising and rewarding return of the Godhead's seventh round personality. The Jane Roberts Seth Material written in the last quarter of the twentieth century is of an internal source and corrects the record of the Crucifixion, a true event embedded in myth. Two crucifixions are in play, a physical one in 33 AD and a second "psychic" crucifixion happening nearly 300 years later. It is the later event that etches the name Jesus and salvation message deeply in the minds of the people of the West. Internally tapping Seth and this author's incarnational inner sources, a new and different story of Jesus emerges from a lost history, far grander and philosophically deep. The Apostle Paul plays the major role of documenting the events unfolding after the AD 33 Crucifixion, the New Testament Bible containing Paul's 14 letters making up more than half of the canon's 27 books. Historians doubt authenticity of many of these books, yet Paul's letters, particular 6 which nearly all historians agree are legitimately penned by Paul. The 14 letters, all authenticated as genuine by this author's inner sources, become this novel's primary focus, historically sandwiched between the first crucifixion and second psychic crucifixion events, and proving through documentation of the actual New Testament letters of Paul this far greater developed Jesus story. For demonstrating legitimacy and accuracy, I have, through inner sources, provided general time, place, and purpose, for each of Paul's letters and for all of the 27 books making up the NT Bible. Paul's traveling companion Luke recorded Paul's journey in the NT book "Acts of the Apostles", and I reference the numbered passages in the novel's stories of Paul's journeys. Italics are used wherever paragraphs and sentences are quoted from actual Biblical dialog, as are Paul's letters italicized and indented. The second crucifixion, the key but little known event in the whole Jesus narrative, happens early in the fourth century AD and is in the Catholic Church record of their saints. Here, fact is separated from myth, the full astonishing event told by the central actor in the narrative, herself. The full story of Jesus of Nazareth and the evolution of the Christian Church will be unfolding on the scene of the modern-day world as the seventh incarnation of the Godhead arrives and brings mankind into the fold of the higher teachings and a new world relationship of peace and prosperity right here in front of us all.
