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We the People explores John Howard
Yoder’s account of peoplehood and develops an appreciative revision that
considers the politics of Jesus in relation to the people of Israel. This
revision articulates the theopolitical stakes in relation to the modern
nation-state’s claims to peoplehood and the observable effects of its
exegetical and historical moorings in self-assertion as the new and purified
Israel. Tommy Givens then undertakes a critical engagement with Karl Barth’s
account of God’s election and a theologically sensitive exegesis of key
biblical texts in dialogue with Carl Schmitt, Jacob Taubes, and N. T. Wright.
Yoder’s account of peoplehood and develops an appreciative revision that
considers the politics of Jesus in relation to the people of Israel. This
revision articulates the theopolitical stakes in relation to the modern
nation-state’s claims to peoplehood and the observable effects of its
exegetical and historical moorings in self-assertion as the new and purified
Israel. Tommy Givens then undertakes a critical engagement with Karl Barth’s
account of God’s election and a theologically sensitive exegesis of key
biblical texts in dialogue with Carl Schmitt, Jacob Taubes, and N. T. Wright.
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About the author
Tommy Givens is assistant professor of New Testament at Fuller Theological Seminary. He earned a Th.D. at Duke University, co-directed by Richard Hays and Stanley Hauerwas. He taught theology previously at Centro Teológico Al-Andalus in Spain.
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