Walsh, Brian J., 1953-

Colossians remixed : subverting the empire / Brian J. Walsh and Sylvia C. Keesmaat. - Downers Grove, Ill. : InterVarsity Press, c2004. - 256 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [234]-246)

Placing Colossians : globalism and postmodernity -- Colossians and disquieted globalism -- Placing Colossians : discerning empire -- Contested fruitfulness in the shadow of empire -- Subversive poetry and contested imagination -- Regimes of truth and the word of truth -- What is truth? -- Faithful improvisation and idolatrous lies -- An ethic of secession -- An ethic of community -- An ethic of liberation -- A suffering ethic.

0830827382 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2004017265


Bible.--N.T.--Colossians--Social scientific criticism.


Rome in the Bible.
Globalization--Religious aspects--Christianity.

BS2715.6.R65 / W35 2004

227.7 Wal 2004