Jesus Not Pleased with Pax Romana

Posted on July 20, 2008. Filed under: 4. War and Empire |

“In Jerusalem, the fate of Jesus was very closely bound up with the Pax Romana: through his violent death he became its victim….[T]he central content of his proclamation, the imminence of the kingdom of God, amounts to a questioning of the Pax Romana: anyone who (more…)

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