Counter-imperial

My friend Jason Barr nails it here. Jason quotes this on his website,“[Christian] scholars have taken the dynamite of the church, have wrapped it up in nice phraseology, placed it in an hermetic container and sat on the lid. It is about time to blow the lid off.” — Peter Maurin

Well, he's doing just that.

Check out his Musings on Paul which echoes alot of what you'd hear in 900 pages of N.T Wright (New Testament scholar and all around bad hombre). What a bargain! 1 page for his 900+. Rush now as operators are standing by! Come on already! Click the link!

"Paul’s evangelism cannot be understood in terms of a traveling preacher who offered people a new religious experience, one superior to the religous understandings they had previously possessed. Rather, he should be seen as a kind of traveling ambassador (a term he actually uses to describe himself) for a new king-in-waiting, establishing colonies of people loyal to this new king, ordering their lives and practices according to the story and symbols of this new king, rather than to the imperial Roman story that formed the dominant religious, as well as political, mythos of the time. Paul called his converts to order their minds according to the truth of the story of Christ, not of Caesar’s. This can only be construed as deeply subversive and counter-imperial. The fact that Paul ended up in prison, executed under the reign of the “god” Nero is a sign that he did his duty for the new king quite properly."