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Paul and the Politics of Difference - A Contextual Study of the Jewish-Gentile Difference in Galatians and Romans (Paperback)
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Paul and the Politics of Difference - A Contextual Study of the Jewish-Gentile Difference in Galatians and Romans (Paperback)
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Loot Price R553
Discovery Miles 5 530
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Paul lies at the core of the constant debate about the opposition
between Christianity and Judaism both in biblical interpretation
and public discourse. The so-called new perspective on Paul has not
offered a significant break from the formidable paradigm of
Christian universalism versus Jewish particularism in Pauline
scholarship. This book liberates Paul from the Western logic of
identity and its dominant understanding of difference. Drawing
attention to the currency of discourses on difference in
contemporary theories as well as in biblical studies, the author
critically examines the hermeneutical relevance of a contextual and
relational understanding of difference. He applies it to interpret
the dynamics of Jew-Gentile difference reflected particularly in
meal practices (Gal 2:1-21 and Rom 14:1-15:13) of early Christian
communities. 'Paul and the Politics of Difference' argues that by
deconstructing the hierarchy of social relations underlying the
Jew-Gentile difference in different community situations, Paul
promotes a politics of difference. This affirms a preferential
option for the socially 'weak' - solidarity with the weak. Paul's
politics of difference is invoked as the potential for liberation
in a vision of egalitarian justice in the face of contemporary
globalism's proliferation of difference.
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