Messianism against Christology
Subtitle: resistance movements, folk arts, and empire
By: James W. Perkinson
Series: New approaches to religion and power
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9781137332271
Subjects: Miscellanea; Person and offices; Messianism
Description: The book is a collection of essays exploring questions of freedom, justice, representation and identity as these arise in various historical moments both inside and outside of normative christological discourse about Jesus. The basic thesis is that messianic talk about Jesus in 1st century Palestinian through the imperial cult after Constantine.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-236) and index.