Jesus and Empire: The Kingdom of God and the New World Disorder

Richard A. Horsley

Language: English

Publisher: Fortress Press

Published: Nov 11, 2002

Description:

Building on his earlier studies of Jesus, Galilee, and the social upheavals in Roman Palestine, Horsley focuses his attention on how Jesus' proclamation of the kingdom of God relates to Roman and Herodian power politics. In addition he examines how modern ideologies relate to Jesus' proclamation.

From the Publisher

A major advance in Jesus studies and a critique of oppression.

About the Author

Richard A. Horsley is Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and the Study of Religion at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He is the author of The Message and the Kingdom (2002 with Neil Asher Siberman), Jesus and the Spiral of Violence (1992), and Jesus and the Empire (2002).