Reading Scripture as a Political Act: Essays on the Theopolitical Interpretation of the Bible
Reading Scripture as a Political Act: Essays on the Theopolitical Interpretation of the Bible

Reading Scripture as a Political Act: Essays on the Theopolitical Interpretation of the Bible

by Rebekah Eklund, Peter Dula, Melanie Webb, Mark DelCogliano, Daniel Wade McClain, Travis E. Ables, Matthew A. Tapie, David Lantigua, Anthony Baker, D. Stephen Long, Kevin L. Hughes, Susannah Ticciati, John C. Nugent, and Craig Hovey

Pages 224
Publisher Fortress Press
Published 2015
ISBN-13 9781451479638
This volume explores the political character of premodern and modern readings of Scripture with attention to how these relate to or address political challenges in social and historical contexts. Essays here also offer constructive models of reading Scripture that can inform the contemporary task of political scriptural interpretation. From the earliest Christian centuries to the present day, this volume considers the close coordination between Scripture, theology, and social and political concerns, providing a robust survey of Christian theopolitical Scripture interpretation.

  • Contents:
  • Foreword—Stephen E. Fowl
  • Introduction—Matthew A. Tapie and Daniel Wade McClain
  • 1. Empire and Enemies: Rereading Lament as a Political Act—Rebekah Eklund
  • 2. The Politics of Friendship in the Gospel of John—Peter Dula
  • 3. “Before the Eyes of Their Own God”: Susanna, Rape Law, and Testimony in Augustine’s City of God—Melanie Webb
  • 4. The Politics of Fasting in Basil of Caesarea—Mark DelCogliano
  • 5. Contemplating Genesis 1 as a Political Act in Late Antiquity—Daniel Wade McClain
  • 6. The Apocalyptic Figure of Francis’s Stigmatized Body: The Politics of Scripture in Bonaventure’s Meditative Treatises—Travis E. Ables
  • 7. “For He Is Our Peace”: Thomas Aquinas on Christ as Cause of Peace in the City of the Saints—Matthew A. Tapie
  • 8. War and the Ethics of Evangelization: The Great Commission in Sixteenth-Century Spanish Political Thought—David Lantigua
  • 9. The Slanted Page: Shakespeare and Biblical Anarchy—Anthony Baker
  • 10. Inhabiting Scripture: Wesley’s Theopolitical Reading of the Bible—D. Stephen Long
  • 11. Ressourcement and Resistance: La nouvelle théologie, the Bible, and the Fathers against Fascism—Kevin L. Hughes
  • 12. The Political Use of Scripture in the Barmen Declaration—Susannah Ticciati
  • 13. The End of Sacrifice: John Howard Yoder’s Critique of Capital Punishment—John Nugent
  • 14. A Broken Body Reads Mark—Craig Hovey

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