October 19, 2007

MINNEAPOLIS – The radically altered situation today in religion, politics, and global communication-what can broadly be characterized as postmodern and postcolonial-necessitates close rereading of Christianity's classical sources, especially its theologians.

In a groundbreaking textbook anthology from Fortress Press, Empire and The Christian Tradition: New Readings of Classical Theologians, twenty-nine distinguished scholars scrutinize the relationship between empire and Christianity from Paul to the liberation theologians of our time.

The contributors discuss how the classical theologians in different historical periods dealt with their own contexts of empire and issues such as center and margin, divine power and social domination, war and violence, gender hierarchy, and displacement and diaspora. Each chapter provides insights and resources drawn from the classical theological tradition to address the current political situation.

Empire and The Christian Tradition is a unique textbook anthology ideal for classroom use.

Editors:

• Kwok Pui-Lan is William F. Cole Professor of Christian Theology and Spirituality at Episcopal Divinity School. Among her many publications are Discovering the Bible in the Non-Biblical World (1995), Introducing Asian Feminist Theology (2000), and Postcolonial Imagination and Feminist Theology (2005).

• Don H. Compier is founding Dean and Professor of Theology at Community of Christ Seminary, Graceland University, Independence, Missouri, and author of What Is Rhetorical Theology? (1999) and John Calvin's Rhetorical Doctrine of Sin (2001).

• Joerg Rieger is Professor of Systematic Theology at Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas. He is author of Remember the Poor (1998), God and the Excluded (2001), and Christ and Empire (2007).

Empire and The Christian Tradition: New Readings of Classical Theologians, Edited by Kwok Pui-Lan, Don H. Compier, and Joerg Rieger, Item No: 978-0-8006-6215-8, Spec: 400 pages, 7" x 9.25," paperback, Price: $32.00.

To order Empire and The Christian Tradition: New Readings of Classical Theologians please call Fortress Press at 1-800-328-4648 or visit the Web site at http://www.fortresspress.com/.

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