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Poverty, Wealth, and Empire

Poverty, Wealth, and Empire

Michael J. Sandford / Michael JSandford

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Sheffield Phoenix Press
Año de edición:
2014
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9781909697270

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Poverty, Wealth, and Empire presents an antidote to the liberalJesuses that are constantly being constructed by theologiansand historians in universities and seminaries in the West.Sandford’s programme is to pay attention to those textswhere Jesus appears hostile to his audiences, or even invokesthe idea of divine judgment and violence against certaingroups. Drawing on a variety of texts in the SynopticGospels, Sandford finds violent denunciations of the richand those who neglect the needy to be a consistent theme inJesus’ teaching.Rather than deploying biblical texts to support an antiimperialor liberationist agenda, Sandford foregroundstroubling and problematic texts. Among them are wisdomsayings that justify poverty, texts that denigrate particularethnic groups, and the ideology inherent in Jesus’ teachingsabout ’the Kingdom of God’. On such a basis Sandford isable to call into question the effectiveness of mainlineChristian scholarly interpretations of Jesus in dealing withthe most profound ethical problems of our time: poverty,domination and violence.Always alert to the assumptions and prejudices of muchWestern New Testament scholarship, Sandford draws attentionto its intellectual contradictions, and, furthermore, tothe way in which this scholarship has sometimes served toundergird and justify systems of oppression-in particular byits demonstrable dodging of the issue of material povertyand its causes. Building on recent debates in postcolonialbiblical criticism, Sandford offers a decidedly ’illiberal’ readingof Jesus’ sayings on divine judgment, focusing on theparadoxical idea of a ’nonviolent’ Jesus who neverthelessmakes pronouncements of divine violence upon the rich.

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