Search: the Politics of Scripture

…hate, but to be all the more zealous in their own loving in its face. The politics of overcoming evil are about neither ignoring nor condoning evil, but rather, fighting…

…the “politics of imposed revolution in Iraq” is a theoretical and interpretive study of the tension and intertwining between three models of constitution making, all of them showing their “elective…

…taxes on the wealthiest Americans. The bitter lesson for American politics is that significant issues simply cannot be considered as part of the process of elections. This is actually true…

…characters who pressure him to abandon his commitments. Politics of pressure are present in so many ways, throughout the Bible and into our daily lives. The Israelites in Deuteronomy navigate…

…our politics continue to be shot through with principles of sacrifice, faith, and love. The state presents itself as worthy of sacrifice, as the bearer of an ultimate meaning, worth…

…you doing these things” (Matthew 21:23). Jesus, however, is well aware of the power politics at play. He is aware both that the chief priests cannot recognize a Jewish messiah…

…worship of Yahweh and fighting against the worship of Baal. The prophet’s actions must be understood against a wider Near Eastern context where religion was completely intertwined with politics and…

At the epicenter of industrialization, as an apocalypse of water engulfs a globe, color is the place where Spirit speaks politics. And it is especially artful color that intensifies that…

…“refugee” identity— “Amra kara? Bastuhara” [Who are we? We are displaced]— was their slogan. With that radical thrust of this collective identity, their identity politics started shifting towards a political…

…text, one is immediately confronted with an embarrassment of riches: nearly every verse highlights some value or norm which is essential for Christian praxis and politics, provoking applications in many…

…what it means politically. If politics is about the exercise of power, what does the interactive act of beholding do to our estimations of power? We might wonder what a…

…is a secondary power that is exercised best when we remember that before we see, we have already been seen. And that humbling awareness is the beginning of faithful politics….