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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 [...]

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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