Render Unto Caesar The Struggle Over Christ and Culture in the New Testament 1st Edition by John Dominic Crossan ISBN 0062964933 978-0062964939

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ISBN 10: 0062964933
ISBN 13: 978-0062964939
Author: John Dominic Crossan 

The revered Bible scholar and author of The Historical Jesus explores the Christian culture wars—the debates over church and state—from a biblical perspective, exploring the earliest tensions evident in the New Testament, and offering a way forward for Christians today.

Leading Bible scholar John Dominic Crossan, the author of the pioneering work The Historical Jesus, provides new insight into the Christian culture wars which began in the New Testament and persist strongly today. 

For decades, Americans have been divided on how Christians should relate to government and lawmakers, a dispute that has impacted every area of society and grown more rancorous over the past forty years. But as Crossan makes clear, this debate isn’t new; it can be found in the New Testament itself, most notably in the tensions between Luke-Acts and Revelation.  

In the texts of Luke-Acts, Rome is considered favorably. In the book of Revelation, Rome is seen as the embodiment of evil in the world. Yet there is an alternative to these two extremes, Crossan explains. The historical Jesus and Paul, the earliest Christian teachers, were both strongly opposed to Rome, yet neither demonized the Empire. 

Crossan sees in Jesus and Paul’s approach a model for Christians today that can be used to cut through the acrimony and polarization roiling our society and dividing us. 

Render Unto Caesar The Struggle Over Christ and Culture in the New Testament 1st Table of contents:

Part One: Culture Rejected and Demonized

1. God Shall Overcome Someday

2. The Coming of What Is Already Present

3. The Once and Future Beast

4. Among These Dark Satanic Hills

5. The Longest Lie

Part Two: Culture Accepted and Canonized

6. Creating a Counternarrative

7. “Whom Paul Had Taken with Him”

8. The Vision of Roman Christianity

9. The Way of the Holy Spirit

10. The Cost of Acculturation

Part Three: Culture Confronted and Criticized

11. The Invention of Nonviolent Resistance

12. “We Are Unarmed, as You See”

13. “Jesus Called Christ”

14. Sanctions and Sabbaths

15. “Love Your Enemies”

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