Hollis Phelps is Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Mercer University. He is the author of Alain Badiou: Between Theology and Anti-Theology and, with Philip Goodchild, editor of Religion and European Philosophy: Key Thinkers from Kant to Today.
"Jesus and the Politics of Mammon takes us on a deep dive way down
into the histories, ideas, and double-dealings that produced a
world economy in which we now live, move, and have our being.
There, way down, Phelps shows us a Jesus who signals a striking
upheaval from within this inheritance of religion, politics, and
money . . . a Jesus as yet unknown but who may yet become your most
disconcerting, challenging, and sublimely inspiring ally in a world
of domination through debt, workaholism, and the idolatrous worship
of family. Phelps has blazed a new trail here for all concerned
with the biblical legacies of radical contemporary theory."
--Ward Blanton, University of Kent
"Christianity has carried with it a long history of opposition to
the 'ways of the world, ' at times fostering extreme ascetic views
that seek to negate every functioning global economy. Phelps'
incisive commentary on Jesus' critiques of money, work, and even
the family offer us another chance to re-examine this Christian
ascetic legacy at a time when economic and neo-liberal forces rage
stronger than ever before. By refocusing this ongoing debate on
issues of accumulation and possession, Phelps moves along a path
that dares to yield a more productive position than those that lead
to an often insurmountable impasse."
--Colby Dickinson, Loyola University Chicago
"What would Jesus do, today, in our contemporary world regulated by
money, work, and family as ruled by neoliberal capitalism? In this
extraordinary book, Hollis Phelps gives us a radical Jesus to go
along with the radical Paul of recent contemporary philosophy. Here
Jesus becomes the bleeding edge of a radical insurrectionist
theology that drives us beyond the institutions of Christianity and
capitalism."
--Clayton Crockett, University of Central Arkansas, co-editor of
Doing Theology in the Age of Trump
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