Empire in the New Testament: 2 (McMaster New Testament Studies)

How does a Christian render unto Caesar what is Caesars and unto God what is Gods? This book is the result of the Bingham Colloquium of 2007 that brought scholars from across North America to examine the New Testaments response to the empires of God and Caesar. Two chapters lay the foundation for that response in the Old Testaments concept of empire and six others address the response to the notion of empire both human and divine in the various authors of the New Testament. A final chapter investigates how the church fathers regarded the matter. The essays display various methods and positions; together however they offer a representative sample of the current state of study of the notion of empire in the New Testament.