Jesus and the Powers: Conflict, Covenant, and the Hope of the Poor

Refusing a false dichotomy between politics and religion in Jesus' world (and our own), Jesus and the Powers rediscovers Jesus' response to the imperial power of his day. Richard A. Horsley describes the relevance of political realities under great empires for understanding the rise of covenantal theology and apocalyptic vision in Israel's history. Then he explores aspects of Jesus' activity in the context of the Roman Empire. Horsley examines Jesus as an exorcist and prophetic figure and the character of his death by crucifixion. He also shows how the community life in the early Pauline assemblies gave form to a new response to imperial powers--and stimulus to contemporary readers to re-imagine their own response to political realities in our own day.

Author: Richard A. Horsley
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 10/01/2010
Pages: 258
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9780800697082

Review Citation(s):
Choice 03/01/2011

About the Author
Horsley, Richard A.: -

Richard A. Horsley is Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and the Study of Religion at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He is the author of The Message and the Kingdom (2002 with Neil Asher Siberman), Jesus and the Spiral of Violence (1992), and Jesus and the Empire (2002).

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