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How God Became King - 2c The Hidden Underlying Challenge: Theocracy
How God Became King - 2c The Hidden Underlying Challenge: Theocracy
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Hidden Underlying Challenge: Theocracy When we examine the wider movements of thought and culture in the eighteenth century, we find something of enormous significance for understanding why the gospels were being read in the way they were…
How God Became King - 8c Power and Empire Within First-Century Judaism
How God Became King - 8c Power and Empire Within First-Century Judaism
by SPCK - N T Wright
Power and Empire Within First-Century Judaism As we saw earlier, the Judaism of the postexilic period had quite a well-developed narrative of God and empire. Even though many Jews longed for God to become king in the full, complete way he’d promised, they still believed that in t…
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