Locating the Kingdom of God

Regular price €97.99
Regular price €98.99 Sale Sale price €97.99
A01=Dr Karen J. Wenell
A01=Karen J. Wenell
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
Author_Dr Karen J. Wenell
Author_Karen J. Wenell
automatic-update
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=HRC
Category=HRCF2
Category=HRCG
Category=HRLC
Category=QRMF
Category=QRMF13
Category=QRVC
Christianity
COP=United Kingdom
culture
Delivery_Pre-order
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_new_release
ethics
exegesis
gospels
identity
Kingdom of God
language
Language_English
New Testament
PA=Not yet available
Price_€50 to €100
PS=Forthcoming
religious spaces
sacred boundaries
softlaunch
synoptic gospels

Product details

  • ISBN 9780567711182
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 19 Sep 2024
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
  • Language: English
Delivery/Collection within 10-20 working days

Our Delivery Time Frames Explained
2-4 Working Days: Available in-stock

10-20 Working Days
: On Backorder

Will Deliver When Available
: On Pre-Order or Reprinting

We ship your order once all items have arrived at our warehouse and are processed. Need those 2-4 day shipping items sooner? Just place a separate order for them!

This book offers a new, multidisciplinary way of thinking about the Kingdom of God which fully recognises its sociological and spatial significance in performing boundaries of the sacred. Though spatial-critical perspectives have been increasingly recognised as important across many disciplines, the significance of non-physical religious spaces and their correspondence to boundaries of the sacred has not been explored fully, and never using the specific example of the Kingdom of God. Wenell considers the diverse and sometimes contradictory articulation of the Kingdom in the gospels as well as the ways that Kingdom language frames contemporary ethical debates. Her study of the Kingdom is located within the wider study of religion, affording the opportunity to investigate connections between space, belonging and the sacred.

Wenell structures her investigation in four key areas that engage with the Kingdom in different, but theoretically interconnected ways. She begins by setting out a theory of sacred space that is capable of including the Kingdom, and establishing key concepts such as boundary, performance, physical/non-physical spatiality, spokespersons and controversy. Wenell then focuses on the synoptic gospels and the origins of the Kingdom, noting aspects of uncertainty as well as areas of agreement and controversy over boundaries of the sacred in these uniquely interrelated texts. The third and fourth areas of investigation move into cultural reception, considering instances where the Kingdom is formative for identity and ethical relationships both in individual and wider group belonging terms. Specific reference is made to issues of ethical consuming and displacement, placing the Kingdom in dialogue with Bauman’s discussion of a society of consumers, and Arendt’s notion of equitable co-habitation of the earth.

Karen J. Wenell is Associate Professor of New Testament and Theology at the University of Birmingham, UK.