TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pillar,Edward
TI  - Resurrection as anti-imperial gospel: 1 Thessalonians 1:9b-10 in context 
T2  - Emerging scholars
SN  - 9781451465686
AV  - BS2725.52 .P55 2013
U1  - 232.97 23
KW  - Bible
KW  - Thessalonians, 1st
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - Commentaries
KW  - Resurrection
KW  - Christianity and culture
KW  - Rome
KW  - History
KW  - Early church, ca. 30-600
N1  - Revision of the author's thesis (Ph.D.) -- Trinity Saint David School of Theology, University of Wales, 2012; Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-294) and indexes; "Whom he raised from the dead" -- Turning to God -- Turning to God from idols -- "To serve..." -- "The living and true God" -- Waiting... -- "The son from the heavens" -- "Jesus, who rescues us from wrath" -- Conclusion
N2  - "Presuming that the heart of Paul's gospel announcement was the news that God had raised Jesus from the dead (as indicated in 1 Thessalonians 1:9b-10), Edward Pillar explores Paul's letter and aspects of the Roman imperial culture in Thessalonica in order to imagine what proclamation would have evoked for its first hearers. He argues that the gospel of resurrection would have been heard as fundamentally anti-imperial. Jesus of Nazareth was executed by means of imperial power, yet the resurrection subverts and usurps the empire's power."--Page 4 of cover
ER  -