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For the nation : Jesus, the restoration of Israel and articulating a Christian ethic of territorial governance / Nicholas R. Brown ; foreword by Joel Willitts.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Eugene, Oregon : Pickwick Publications, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 221 pages .)Content type:
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  • 9781498279048
  • 149827904X
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: For the nation.DDC classification:
  • 231.7/2 23
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  • BT94 .B76 2016
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Machine generated contents note: I. Origins of the Project -- II. Prolegomena and Questions -- III. Thesis -- 1. W(h)ither the Land? The De-territorialization of Jesus and the Kingdom of God in New Testament Scholarship -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Scholarly Incongruities and Puzzling Conundrums -- 1.3. Texts for Examination -- 1.4. W.D. Davies: The Gospel and the Land: Early Christianity and Jewish Territorial Doctrine -- 1.5. Marcus Borg: Conflict, Holiness and Politics in the Teachings of Jesus -- 1.6. N.T. Wright: Jesus and the Victory of God -- 1.7. Conclusion -- 2. From a Territorial State into State of Ethical Praxis: Discerning the Roots and Structure of the Kingdoms De-territorialization in Christian Ethics -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. From a Territorial State to a Non-territorial Religious Ethic: A Historical and Theological Etiology of the Kingdoms De-territorialization -- 2.3. Ethical De-territorialization of the Kingdom in Three Acts: Praxification, Ecclesiofication, and Typofication -- 2.3.1. Praxification: The Kingdom of God as a Place-less Ethical Performance -- 2.3.2. Ecclesiofication: The Kingdom as a "Churchified" Spatial Reality -- 2.3.3. Typofication: Israel's Land as a Provisional Paradigm for Holy Space -- 2.4. Politics of Jesus: Nonviolent Enemy Love -- 2.5. Peaceable and Non-territorial Reign -- 2.6. Conclusion -- 3. Ground (s) on Which We Stand: De-territorializing the Kingdom of God in the Christian Imagination and Its Implications for Contemporary Theology and Ethics -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. On Hollowed Ground: The Ambivalent Territoriality of St. Justin Martyr's and St. Irenaeus's Interpretations of the Kingdom of God -- 3.2.1. Chiliasm and Gnosticism in St. Justin Martyr's and St. Irenaeus's Theology -- 3.2.2. St. Justin Martyr's and St. Irenaeus' Interpretations of the Kingdom -- 3.3. Theological Implications of a De-territorialized Kingdom -- 3.3.1. Covenantal -- 3.3.2. Supersessionist -- 3.4. Ethical Implications of a De-territorialized Kingdom -- 3.5. Conclusion -- 4. Restoration of Land and a Restoration of Justice Governance: Restoration Eschatologies in Prophetic Texts and Late Second Temple Literature -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Jeremiah's Theological and Ethical Symbiosis between Yahweh, Israel and the Land -- 4.2.1. Jeremiah 29 -- 34: A Return to the Land and a Return to Justice -- 4.3. Israel's Restoration in Isa 56 -- 61: A Landed, Particular Universalism -- 4.4. Israel's Restoration in Late Second Temple Jewish Literature -- 4.4.1. Book of Jubilees -- 4.4.2. Psalms of Solomon -- 4.5. Conclusion -- 5. Jesus and the Kingdom: A Restoration of the Land and a Restoration of Just Governance for Israel and the Nations -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. Matthew 5:5 -- Jesus' Beatitude of Blessing the Meek -- 5.3. Lord's Prayer in Matt 6:9 -- 13 5.4. Jesus' Proclamation of the Jubilee in Luke 4:16 -- 21 -- 5.5. Palingenesia/Kingdom in Matt 19:27 -- 30 5.6. Toward Articulating a Christian Ethic of Territorial Governance: A Proposed Normative Framework -- 5.6.1. Walzer's Reiteration -- a Normative Model for a Christian Ethic of Territorial Governance.
Summary: The nature of the kingdom Jesus proclaims in the Gospels has long been a subject of intense theological debate. More recently the lines of this debate have dramatically shifted as several leading historical Jesus scholars and Christian social ethicists have argued that Jesus' kingdom proclamation most likely expresses a first century Jewish hope for Israel's restoration. Yet while several are now sanguine that Jesus' kingdom vision constitutes nothing less than a full-throated restoration of Israel's nationality, they are just as certain it rejects a restoration of Israel's land. As such it has become increasingly fashionable to say that an authentic practice of the "kingdom" ethic that Jesus enunciates must necessarily be a-territorial. The purpose of this work is to respond to these arguments and show why this can and indeed should not be the case. Through a careful and detailed process of historical investigation, biblical exegesis, theological exploration, and ethical analysis we will come to see that not only is the kingdom that Jesus proclaims inextricably landed, but also why such a kingdom is integral to articulating a Christian ethic of territorial governance. -- back cover.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-206) and index.

The nature of the kingdom Jesus proclaims in the Gospels has long been a subject of intense theological debate. More recently the lines of this debate have dramatically shifted as several leading historical Jesus scholars and Christian social ethicists have argued that Jesus' kingdom proclamation most likely expresses a first century Jewish hope for Israel's restoration. Yet while several are now sanguine that Jesus' kingdom vision constitutes nothing less than a full-throated restoration of Israel's nationality, they are just as certain it rejects a restoration of Israel's land. As such it has become increasingly fashionable to say that an authentic practice of the "kingdom" ethic that Jesus enunciates must necessarily be a-territorial. The purpose of this work is to respond to these arguments and show why this can and indeed should not be the case. Through a careful and detailed process of historical investigation, biblical exegesis, theological exploration, and ethical analysis we will come to see that not only is the kingdom that Jesus proclaims inextricably landed, but also why such a kingdom is integral to articulating a Christian ethic of territorial governance. -- back cover.

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Machine generated contents note: I. Origins of the Project -- II. Prolegomena and Questions -- III. Thesis -- 1. W(h)ither the Land? The De-territorialization of Jesus and the Kingdom of God in New Testament Scholarship -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Scholarly Incongruities and Puzzling Conundrums -- 1.3. Texts for Examination -- 1.4. W.D. Davies: The Gospel and the Land: Early Christianity and Jewish Territorial Doctrine -- 1.5. Marcus Borg: Conflict, Holiness and Politics in the Teachings of Jesus -- 1.6. N.T. Wright: Jesus and the Victory of God -- 1.7. Conclusion -- 2. From a Territorial State into State of Ethical Praxis: Discerning the Roots and Structure of the Kingdoms De-territorialization in Christian Ethics -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. From a Territorial State to a Non-territorial Religious Ethic: A Historical and Theological Etiology of the Kingdoms De-territorialization -- 2.3. Ethical De-territorialization of the Kingdom in Three Acts: Praxification, Ecclesiofication, and Typofication -- 2.3.1. Praxification: The Kingdom of God as a Place-less Ethical Performance -- 2.3.2. Ecclesiofication: The Kingdom as a "Churchified" Spatial Reality -- 2.3.3. Typofication: Israel's Land as a Provisional Paradigm for Holy Space -- 2.4. Politics of Jesus: Nonviolent Enemy Love -- 2.5. Peaceable and Non-territorial Reign -- 2.6. Conclusion -- 3. Ground (s) on Which We Stand: De-territorializing the Kingdom of God in the Christian Imagination and Its Implications for Contemporary Theology and Ethics -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. On Hollowed Ground: The Ambivalent Territoriality of St. Justin Martyr's and St. Irenaeus's Interpretations of the Kingdom of God -- 3.2.1. Chiliasm and Gnosticism in St. Justin Martyr's and St. Irenaeus's Theology -- 3.2.2. St. Justin Martyr's and St. Irenaeus' Interpretations of the Kingdom -- 3.3. Theological Implications of a De-territorialized Kingdom -- 3.3.1. Covenantal -- 3.3.2. Supersessionist -- 3.4. Ethical Implications of a De-territorialized Kingdom -- 3.5. Conclusion -- 4. Restoration of Land and a Restoration of Justice Governance: Restoration Eschatologies in Prophetic Texts and Late Second Temple Literature -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Jeremiah's Theological and Ethical Symbiosis between Yahweh, Israel and the Land -- 4.2.1. Jeremiah 29 -- 34: A Return to the Land and a Return to Justice -- 4.3. Israel's Restoration in Isa 56 -- 61: A Landed, Particular Universalism -- 4.4. Israel's Restoration in Late Second Temple Jewish Literature -- 4.4.1. Book of Jubilees -- 4.4.2. Psalms of Solomon -- 4.5. Conclusion -- 5. Jesus and the Kingdom: A Restoration of the Land and a Restoration of Just Governance for Israel and the Nations -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. Matthew 5:5 -- Jesus' Beatitude of Blessing the Meek -- 5.3. Lord's Prayer in Matt 6:9 -- 13 5.4. Jesus' Proclamation of the Jubilee in Luke 4:16 -- 21 -- 5.5. Palingenesia/Kingdom in Matt 19:27 -- 30 5.6. Toward Articulating a Christian Ethic of Territorial Governance: A Proposed Normative Framework -- 5.6.1. Walzer's Reiteration -- a Normative Model for a Christian Ethic of Territorial Governance.