Messianism Against Christology: Resistance Movements, Folk Arts, And Empire (New Approaches To Religion And Power)

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.

• | Author: J. Perkinson
• | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• | Publication Date: Nov 08, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 277 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1349461687
• | ISBN-13: 9781349461684