- Title
- Resistance versus accommodation: what to do with Romans 13?
- Creator
- Boer, Roland
- Relation
- Postcolonial Interventions: Essays in Honor of R. S. Sugirtharajah p. 109-122
- Relation
- The Bible in the Modern World 23
- Relation
- http://www.sheffieldphoenix.com/showbook.asp?bkid=137
- Publisher
- Sheffield Phoenix Press
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2009
- Description
- In Romans 13.1 Paul writes, ‘Let every person be subject to the governing authorities … anyone who resists the authorities resists what God has appointed’. Romans 13.1-7 is the starting point for the essay, for it raises an acute problem: for every text of resistance and liberation, we can also find at least one of accommodation and oppression. My exploration of this problem has three stages: I begin with the questions Romans 13 poses for those readings that interpret the New Testament as an anti-imperial and anti-colonial collection of texts. From there I consider the full run of political ambivalences and contradictions in Paul’s letters. I close by asking what we can do with these contradictions. I suggest a more materialist position in which Paul’s contradictions are signals of deeper socio-economic ones.
- Subject
- Romans 13; resistance; oppression; New Testament
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/918040
- Identifier
- uon:8495
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781906055707
- Language
- eng
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