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8 Dec 09

Picking up the Tab for Your Boss, and Jesus’ Dying Prayer

I was told a story recently of a group of coworkers that went out to lunch as a work function, a training. At the end of the meal, this one very sweet and well-meaning employee (someone quite low on the totem pole in this office) turned to the department manager and told her that she [...]

5 Comments Posted in Luke-Acts, Power Dynamics, clemency, forgiveness, imperialism by Patrick George McCullough
4 Nov 09

Paul as Complicit in Empire

I’m looking into the whole “Paul and empire” banquet of goodies these days, trying to categorize the scholarship. In my last post, I asked for scholars who might fall into the category of seeing the empire as a bad thing and Paul as complicit in that empire in some way — especially with the undisputed [...]

4 Comments Posted in empire, imperialism, paul of tarsus by Patrick George McCullough
3 Nov 09

Paul and Empire

I am presently thinking about the different categories of scholars who deal with Paul and the empire. There seem to be two broad categories of those who see the empire as a bad thing and those who say, “What’s the big deal about empire?” Within those who see the empire as evil, there seems to [...]

5 Comments Posted in empire, imperialism, paul of tarsus by Patrick George McCullough