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17 - Living the Gospels

Morality and Politics

from Part III - The Afterlife of the Gospels

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 August 2021

By
Scott Bader-Saye
Edited by
Stephen C. Barton  and
Todd Brewer
Stephen C. Barton
Affiliation:
University of Durham
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Summary

Studies the ‘afterlife’ of the gospels into the public realm – the realm of morality and politics. According to Bader-Saye, the gospels are misunderstood if they are confined to the realm of the personal. Rather, the gospels are a summons to a moral life expressive of shared ‘deep themes’ of liberation, dispossession and love. He elaborates on this through a critical appreciation of the way these gospel themes have been taken up in modern discussions of ethics and politics from Immanuel Kant to Romand Coles.

Keywords

liberation theologygospelsImmanuel KantRomand Colesethicspoliticsreception history
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The Cambridge Companion to the Gospels , pp. 344 - 364
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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Further Reading

Cone, James H., God of the Oppressed, rev. ed. (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1997)Google Scholar
Douglas, Kelly Brown, Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2015)Google Scholar
Frei, Hans, The Identity of Jesus Christ (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1975)Google Scholar
Gutiérrez, Gustavo, A Theology of Liberation, rev. ed., trans. Inda, Sister Caridad and Eagleson, John (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1990)Google Scholar
Hauerwas, Stanley, and Coles, Romand, Christianity, Democracy, and the Radical Ordinary (Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2008)Google Scholar
Hays, Richard, The Moral Vision of the New Testament (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1996)Google Scholar
Kittredge, Cynthia Briggs, Aitken, Ellen Bradshaw and Draper, Jonathan A., eds., The Bible in the Public Square: Reading the Signs of the Times (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress, 2008)Google Scholar
Niebuhr, Reinhold, An Interpretation of Christian Ethics (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1963)Google Scholar
Schüssler Fiorenza, Elisabeth, In Memory of Her: A Feminist Theological Reconstruction of Christian Origins (New York: Crossroad, 1983)Google Scholar
Verhey, Allen, Remembering Jesus: Christian Community, Scripture, and the Moral Life (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2002)Google Scholar
Williams, Rowan, Christ on Trial: How the Gospel Unsettles Our Judgment (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2000)Google Scholar
Williams, Rowan, Resurrection: Interpreting the Easter Gospel (Cleveland, OH: Pilgrim Press, 2002)Google Scholar

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