Spoils of the Poor: Isaiah 3
by Ched Myers Conspire, Summer, (2:3), pp 36-38. Full Article:Â Spoils of the Poor: Isaiah 3 SKU: 10-3-F
Richard Horsley’s The Bible and Empire: A Review
by Ched Myers Theology Today (Summer). 4 pp.. It has become almost de rigueur among biblical scholars to use the lens of “empire studies” in their work. I see this as a welcome change from 20 years ago, when my commentary on Mark (Binding the Strong Man: A Political Reading of Mark’s Story of Jesus,…
Biblical Interpretation as Political Practice, I: Socio-political Hermeneutics and Liberation Theology
by Ched Myers Part I of an essay published in: Theology and the Crisis of Engagement: Essays in Honor of Lee Cormie, edited by J. Nowers and N. Medina (Eugene:Pickwick Publications, 2013). 7pp. There have been few North American theologians in the past three decades who have seriously attempted to bridge the longstanding gulf that…
Biblical Interpretation as Political Practice, II: Political Bodies Struggling for Inclusion into the Body Politic
by Ched Myers Part Two of an essay published in: Theology and the Crisis of Engagement: Essays in Honor of Lee Cormie, edited by J. Nowers and N. Medina (Eugene:Pickwick Publications, 2013). 11 pp. We live in a world in which the social architecture of functional segregation and inequality persists. Divisions of race, class and…
Political Theology and Nonviolence: Three Significant North American Contributers
by Ched Myers Edited version of a section in the forthcoming Eerdmans Reader in Contemporary Political Theology, edited by W. Cavanaugh and C. Hovey. 4 pp. Note: Twenty years ago I argued that the Cross of the nonviolent Jesus, who lived and died resisting empire and renewing Israel’s alternative social vision, represented a “stumbling block”…