Resurrection as anti-imperial gospel
Subtitle: 1 Thessalonians 1:9b-10 in context
By: Edward Pillar
Series: Emerging scholars; Emerging scholars
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9781451465686; 9781451469684
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Criticism, interpretation; Commentaries; Resurrection; Christianity and culture; History; Bible
Description: "Presuming that the heart of Paul's gospel announcement was the news that God had raised Jesus from the dead (as indicated in 1 Thessalonians 1:9b-10), Edward Pillar explores Paul's letter and aspects of the Roman imperial culture in Thessalonica in order to imagine what proclamation would have evoked for its first hearers. He argues that the gospel of resurrection would have been heard as fundamentally anti-imperial. Jesus of Nazareth was executed by means of imperial power, yet the resurrection subverts and usurps the empire's power."--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: Revision of the author's thesis (Ph.D.) -- Trinity Saint David School of Theology, University of Wales, 2012.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-294) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: "Whom he raised from the dead"; title: Turning to God; title: Turning to God from idols; title: "To serve..."; title: "The living and true God"; title: Waiting...; title: "The son from the heavens"; title: "Jesus, who rescues us from wrath"; title: Conclusion.