Power, Powerlessness, and the Divine

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ISBN: 9780788504228 | 0788504223
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Copyright: 11/1/1997

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Originally Published by Scholars Press Now Available from Duke University PressContributors include: Rita Nakashima Brock, Claudia V. Camp, Kimberly Chastain, Paul D. Miller, Cynthia L. Rigby, William Schweiker, Gerd Theiben, Michael Welker, Vincent L. Wimbush

Prologue

vii

(2)

Preface

(8)

Acknowledgments

xvii

PART I Method and Content

(36)

1 A New Paradigm of Theological and Biblical Inquiry

(18)

William Schweiker

Michael Welker

2 The Ambivalence of Power in Early Christianity

(18)

Gerd Theiben

PART II Conceptual-Theological Reflections

(98)

3 God's Power And Powerlessness: Biblical Theology And The Search For A World Ethos In A Time Of Short-lived Moral Markets

(18)

Michael Welker

4 Power Lines

(22)

Catherine Keller

5 Someone to Blame, Someone to Trust: Divine Power and the Self-Recovery of the Oppressed

(24)

Cynthia L. Rigby

6 Power and the Agency of God: On the Transvaluation of Power from a Theological-Ethical Perspective

103

(22)

William Schweiker

7 Reconstruing Transcendence: A Response to Welker, Keller, Rigby, and Schweiker

125

(12)

David E. Klemm

PART III Social-Experimental Inquiries

137

(72)

8 A New Thing in the Land: The Female Surrounds the Warrior

137

(24)

Rita Nakashima Brock

9 The Dying Art of Demon-Recognition: Victims, Systems, and the Book of Job

161

(18)

Kimberly Parsons Chastain

10 Divine Power in Powerlessness: The Servant of the Lord in Second Isaiah

179

(20)

Paul D. Hanson

11 Power and Ambiguity: A Response to Brock, Chastain, and Hanson

199

(10)

Flora A. Keshgegian

PART IV Interpretations of the Bible in Tradition

209

(82)

12 Woman Wisdom and the Strange Woman: Where is Power to Be Found?

209

(32)

Claudia V. Camp

13 Power, Purity and Innocence: The Christian Imagination of the Gospel

241

(22)

Burton L. Mack

14 Contemptus Mundi --Redux: The Politics of an Ancient Rhetorics and Worldview

263

(18)

Vincent L. Wimbush

15 Experiencing the Many: A Response to Camp, Mack, and Wimbush

281

(10)

David Jobling

PART V Conclusions

291

(12)

16 Response to the Working Group on "Power, Powerlessness, and the Divine"

291

(12)

Patrick D. Miller

Contributors

303

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