World Upside Down
Reading Acts in the Graeco-Roman Age
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 10 September 2009
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9780195377873
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages312 pages
- Size 236x165x30 mm
- Weight 544 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
No longer can Acts be seen as a simple apologia that articulates Christianity's harmlessness vis-?-vis Rome. Rather, in its attempt to form communities that witness to God's apocalypse, author Kavin Rowe argues that Luke's second volume is a highly charged and theologically sophisticated political document. Luke aims at nothing less than the construction of a new culture - a total pattern of life - that inherently runs counter to the constitutive aspects of Graeco-Roman society.
MoreLong description:
For almost 300 years, the dominant trend in New Testament interpretation has been to read the Acts of the Apostles as a document that argues for the political possibility of harmonious co-existence between 'Rome' and the early Christian movement. Kavin Rowe argues that the time is long overdue for a sophisticated, critically constructive reappraisal. For Luke (the author of Acts), he says, politics is the embodied and concrete shape of God's apocalypse, or revelation, to the world. To understand Luke's political vision, therefore, we must examine how the narration of God's identity shapes ecclesiology: theological truth claims and the core practices of Christian communities are bound together in the very nature of things. Recognizing this interconnection requires a radical reassessment and rereading of Acts. No longer can Acts be seen as a simple apologia that articulates Christianity's harmlessness vis-?-vis Rome. Rather, in its attempt to form communities that witness to God's apocalypse, Luke's second volume is a highly charged and theologically sophisticated political document. Indeed, argues Rowe, Luke aims at nothing less than the construction of a new culture - a total pattern of life - that inherently runs counter to the constitutive aspects of Graeco-Roman society.
a remarkable blend of biblical and historical scholarship, theological erudition and ethical reflection.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Reading Acts
The Project
The Premises
Acts and the Ancient World
Acts and the Reader
Acts and Interpretation
Acts and Modern Vocabulary
The Hope
Collision: Explicating Divine Identity
Acts 14: Paul and Barnabas--Hermes and Zeus
Acts 17: Athensat Philippi
Acts 19: Ephesus
Conclusion
Dikaios: Rejecting Statecraft
Roman Officials
Gallio
Claudius Lysias
Felix
Festus and Herod Agrippa II
Conclusion
