Jesus and Empire

About: Rob G. Reid

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I serve as associate pastor at RockPointe Church in Flower Mound and I am a PhD student at Brite Divinity School in New Testament and Literature of Early Christianity. I have earned a B.A. and Th.M. in New Testament Studies. My interests include imperial-critical biblical criticism, philosophical hermeneutics, Second Temple Judaism, Jewish Apocalyptic literature, more specifically my master's thesis dealt heavily with Enochic literature. On a personal level, I spent half of my lifetime addicted to heroin and other drugs before having my "spiritual awakening." My own theological journey has been and continues to be winding, and I find myself most comfortable with Jurgen Moltmann's biography title "A Broad Place." This path has traversed initial pentecostalism, conservatism, and several other -isms, which I choose now to simply call "follower of Jesus." Indeed, along the journey I was awakened to nascent Christianities and their socio-religious, imperial context.

Posts by Rob G. Reid:

• December 24, 2010 Still Reimagining Christmas: On the Nativity

• March 3, 2010 House of Isaiah

• February 6, 2010 The expanse of Empire through Taxation of the Rich = Failure

• January 22, 2010 Meeting and Engaging with Dr. Mark Goodacre of Duke University

• January 17, 2010 Book Release: New Edited Volume on Acts

• January 14, 2010 Pat Robertson: Beyond Fundamentalist Stupidity…

• December 17, 2009 Obama: Fearmonger-In-Chief

• December 15, 2009 Reimagining Christmas: On the Nativity

• December 9, 2009 Fantastic Apocalyptic Monograph

• November 30, 2009 Obama, Metanarratives, and the flight from reality…

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