Colossians Remixed

Subverting the Empire

By Brian J. Walsh and Sylvia C. Keesmaat

(paperback)

Product Details

Line: IVP Academic
Length: 256 pages
Size: 6 x 9 inches
Binding: paperback
Published: October 2004

ISBN-10: 0-8308-2738-2
ISBN-13: 978-0-8308-2738-1
IVP Order Code: 2738

Related Subjects

Biblical Studies--New Testament

Preface

Part 1: Context Remixed: Colossians and Empire
1. Placing Ourselves: Globalization and Postmodernity
2. Colossians and Disquieted Globalization
3. Placing Colossians: Discerning Empire
4. Contested Fruitfulness in the Shadow of Empire

Part 2: Truth Remixed: Contested Imaginations
5. Subversive Poetry and Contested Imagination
6. Regimes of Truth and the Word of Truth
7. What Is Truth?
8. Faithful Improvisation and Idolatrous Lies

Part 3: Praxis Remixed: Subversive Ethics
9. An Ethic of Secession
10. An Ethic of Community
11. An Ethic of Liberation
12. A Suffering Ethic

Bibliography
Author Index
Subject Index
Scripture Index