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World Upside Down : Reading Acts in the Graeco-Roman Age by Christopher Kavin Rowe is a religious work available to read on EtoBox.
What is World Upside Down : Reading Acts in the Graeco-Roman Age about?
For almost 300 years, the dominant trend in New Testament interpretation has been to read the Acts of the Apostles as a document that argues for the political possibility of harmonious co-existence between 'Rome' and the early Christian movement. Kavin Rowe argues that the time is long overdue for a sophisticated, critically constructive reappraisal. For Luke (the author of Acts), he says, politics is the embodied and concrete shape of God's apocalypse, or revelation, to the world. To understand
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It is typically read by readers engaging with religious study and devotional practice.
Common subject areas: religion, theology.
- Author
- Christopher Kavin Rowe
- Publisher
- Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781282335349
- Category
- religious
- Subjects
- Religion, Christian, Bible
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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