BOOKS - Christ, Power and Mammon
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Christ, Power and Mammon
Author: Scott Thomas Prather
Year: 2013
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 2.0 MB
Language: English
Year: 2013
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 2.0 MB
Language: English
This book examines the role of the New Testament concept of the principalities andpowers in the thought of Karl Barth and John Howard Yoder showing how thisbiblical concept of power is central to the fundamental theological convictionsof each thinker Prather offers a scholarly account of the underexploredtheological and ethical import of a major biblical theme and the book addressesquestions and concerns from a wide range of academic and lay theologicalinterest He brings Barth and Yoder into dialogue here and examines the threecrucial areas the confessional distinction of church and world thedemonization of political power and the intrinsic relation between thepolitical and economic powers Whileother theologians have rightly identified a christocentric connection betweenthe thought of Barth and Yoder no attempt has been made to bring them togetherthrough the sustained analysis of a single doctrinal or ethical issue this bookdoes just that
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