{"product_id":"outlaw-justice-the-messianic-politics-of-paul-9780804785174","title":"Outlaw Justice: The Messianic Politics of Paul","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book offers a close reading of Romans that treats Paul as a radical political thinker by showing the relationship between Paul's perspective and that of secular political theorists. Turning to both ancient political philosophers (Plato, Aristotle, and Cicero) and contemporary post-Marxists (Agamben, Badiou, Derrida, and Zizek), Jennings presents Romans as a sustained argument for a new sort of political thinking concerned with the possibility and constitution of just socialities.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReading Romans as an essay on messianic politics in conversation with ancient and postmodern political theory challenges the stereotype of Paul as a reactionary theologian who \"invented\" Christianity and demonstrates his importance for all, regardless of religious affiliation or academic guild, who dream and work for a society based on respect, rather than domination, division, and death. In the current context of unjust global empires constituted by avarice, arrogance, and violence, Jennings finds in Paul a stunning vision for creating just societies outside the law.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTheodore W. Jennings, Jr. is Professor of Biblical and Philosophical Theology at the Chicago Theological Seminary. His previous books include \u003ci\u003eReading Derrida\/Thinking Paul: On Justice\u003c\/i\u003e (Stanford, 2006) and \u003ci\u003eTransforming Atonement: A Political Theology of the Cross\u003c\/i\u003e (2009).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50461183770898,"sku":"9780804785174","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e42371f6-abd4-4ebc-a12b-962fd34ec50d.jpg?v=1730059470","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/outlaw-justice-the-messianic-politics-of-paul-9780804785174","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}