Church and Empire
Free-Church Ecclesiology in a Global Era
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12663276 |
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| Authors | Earl A Zimmerman (corresponding author), Earl Zimmerman (MCC India Office, 22 Girish Chandra Bose Road Kolkata 700 014 India) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 471-495 |
| Publication date | 2009-07-24 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Theology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1462-317X • E-ISSN: 1743-1719 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1558/poth.v10i3.471 |
| OpenAlex | W2084134035 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
Jesus was cruelly executed as the alleged "king of the Jews" because of his efforts for grassroots religious renewal and resistance to Roman rule in Palestine through local religious-political elites. By the fourth century CE, however, Christianity had become the official religion of the Roman imperium. An ambiguous account of both resisting and supporting imperialism has shaped all church history. Today the United States of America is widely recognized as the central power in a new global empire
Ancient history · Christianity · Ecclesiology · Empire · Grassroots · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Roman Empire · Sociology · Theology · Christian Theology and Mission · Contemporary Cultural and Social Studies · History · Law · Pentecostalism and Christianity Studies · Philosophy · Religious studies · Religious Studies
| Highly cited | No |
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