Almighty Matters - Berry, Nicholas
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Almighty Matters: God's Politics in the Bible explores the underlying politics of the Hebrew and Christian Bibles by uncovering their political-theological connection in a single story line. The politics of the New Testament completes the politics of the Old. Although it has long been recognized that the Hebrew Bible prominently portrays the political development of God's Chosen People, the role of Jesus as a politician, the founder of a movement aimed from its beginning at subverting and capturing the Roman Empire, has not been recognized. Putting the Hebrew and Christian Bibles' political…mehr

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Almighty Matters: God's Politics in the Bible explores the underlying politics of the Hebrew and Christian Bibles by uncovering their political-theological connection in a single story line. The politics of the New Testament completes the politics of the Old. Although it has long been recognized that the Hebrew Bible prominently portrays the political development of God's Chosen People, the role of Jesus as a politician, the founder of a movement aimed from its beginning at subverting and capturing the Roman Empire, has not been recognized. Putting the Hebrew and Christian Bibles' political approach foremost shows why so much of it is hidden and why, until recently, Jewish-Christian relations have been contrary to God's design.
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Nicholas Berry is Professor of Politics Emeritus at Ursinus College, a former Fulbright Scholar at the University of Auckland in New Zealand, author of five books and co-author of a best-selling international relations textbook, and now directs the Foreign Policy Forum Website. In practical politics, he is a former two-term mayor of Mt. Vernon, Iowa, and served as Democratic Party chairman in Lynchburg, Virginia, and Annapolis, Maryland.