Messianism against Christology
by James W. Perkinson
2013
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The book is a collection of essays exploring questions of freedom, justice, representation and identity as these arise in various historical moments both inside and outside of normative christological discourse about Jesus. The basic thesis is that messianic talk about Jesus in 1st century Palestinian through the imperial cult after Constantine.