Why is the death of Christ significant? Some of the church is sure it knows the answer, while much of the rest of the church is deeply uncomfortable with the question. The publicized comment by a feminist theologian at the “Re-imagining” conference a few years ago is only one example of the discomfort: “I don’t think we need a theory of atonement at all.
Books
Jesus in Context: Power, People, and Performance
Richard A. Horsley
God and Empire: Jesus Against Rome, Then and Now
John Dominic Crossan
The Power of the Word: Scripture and the Rhetoric of Empire
Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza
In the Shadow of Empire: Reclaiming the Bible as a History of Faithful Resistance
Richard A. Horsley, ed.
The Arrogance of Nations: Reading Romans in the Shadow of Empire
Neil Elliott
Christ and Empire: From Paul to Postcolonial Times
