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1 online resource (272 pages) |
| Contents |
Reading the Bible in an Age of Crisis; Reading the Bible in an Age of Crisis; ; Contents; Contributors; Abbreviations; Global Crisis and the Practice of Biblical Studies; Introduction; Reading the Bible with the Poor; Occupying My Desk; Solidarity! Conditions Apply; Global Crisis and the First Testament; On the Feasibility of Subsistence Economics; Occupying the Temple in Ancient Judah; The Global Crisis of Debt in Context; Food, Power, and Ecological Hermeneutics; Global Crisis and the Second Testament; Homelessness, Neoliberalism, and Jesus' "Decision" to Go Rogue; Romans 13:1-7 |
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Occupy Solomon's PorticoOn Trying to Praise the Mutilated World; Why Bother with Biblical Studies?; Index |
| Summary |
We live in an age in which economic, ecological, and political crises are not the exception, but the rule. The Cold War polarities that shaped an earlier "political exegesis" have been replaced; Bruce Worthington argues that increasingly, crisis is the engine of a global "turbo-capitalism." In this volume, edited by Worthington, biblical scholars and activists describe and exemplify the shape of a biblical interpretation that takes contemporary crisis seriously as its most important context. Succinct opening essays summarize the salient aspects of our critical situation, especially in relation to the dominance of capitalism and its pervasive values; in later parts, contributions address themes of economic, political, and environmental crisis in dialogue with texts from the First and Second Testaments. Throughout the volume, the authors are careful to describe the basis for making interpretive analogies across historical, cultural, and socioeconomic distances between the world of the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, and our own. Richard A. Horsley writes a postscript pointing to next steps in political interpretation |
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Includes bibliographical references |
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English |
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Print version record |
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Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85013617
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Bible -- Hermeneutics.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85013650
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Bible fast |
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Economics -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Capitalism -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
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Economics in the Bible.
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Capitalism.
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Church and social problems -- Biblical teaching
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Church and the world -- Biblical teaching
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Christianity and politics -- Biblical teaching
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Crises -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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RELIGION / Biblical Studies / Exegesis & Hermeneutics
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Hermeneutics
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Crises -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
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Church and the world -- Biblical teaching
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Church and social problems -- Biblical teaching
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Christianity and politics -- Biblical teaching
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Capitalism
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Capitalism -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
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Economics in the Bible
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Economics -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Worthington, Bruce, 1979- author, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781506400396 |
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1506400396 |
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