How Long to Read Empire Erotics and Messianic Economies of Desire

How Long Does it Take to Read Empire Erotics and Messianic Economies of Desire?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 32 minutes to read Empire Erotics and Messianic Economies of Desire by P. Travis Kroeker

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Description

The 2013 J.J. Thiessen lectures, delivered by Professor P. Travis Kroeker (McMaster University), undertake a theological exploration of the crucial interconnections between desire and economics in our intimate and institutional relationships to money, material goods, and our most basic human aspirations. The first lecture investigates the fact that the book of Genesis begins with an erotics and a marriage but one that opposes contemporary idolatrous erotic-religious mythologies, and that provides the dramatic theological basis for a different political economy. What does the structure of desire in creation have to do with economic justice and social shalom in the empire erotics of our own time? The messianic war against Mammon is depicted in the New Testament as a radicalization of desire through self-emptying and the sovereignty of divine love in the heart. Does this provide the basis for a messianic political economy that can oppose the empire of Mammon? The second lecture examines the birth of Christian imagination in a non-Christian empire, follows it through with Joseph Conrad's analysis in Heart of Darkness and asks how this relates to Mennonites in contemporary North America. Why does the Bible end with a marriage and the fulfillment of desire, over against grotesque parodies of these in empire erotics? In the book of Revelation this is depicted not only as a question of worship but also of liturgy in its original ancient reference to public service. Beginning with an exploration of the distortion of messianic desire into the self-serving erotics of empire, the third lecture will ask how the messianic community can live out an alternative liturgy of service in the everyday.

How long is Empire Erotics and Messianic Economies of Desire?

Empire Erotics and Messianic Economies of Desire by P. Travis Kroeker is 92 pages long, and a total of 23,184 words.

This makes it 31% the length of the average book. It also has 28% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Empire Erotics and Messianic Economies of Desire Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 6 minutes to read Empire Erotics and Messianic Economies of Desire aloud.

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Empire Erotics and Messianic Economies of Desire is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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