Jesus, Jubilee, and the Politics of God’s Reign (Prophetic Christianity)
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Overview
What if the kingdom of God is not a place, but a person?
In this timely monograph, Christian T. Collins Winn argues that the kingdom of God is Jesus himself. Drawing on a wide breadth of liberation theology, Jesus, Jubilee, and the Politics of God’s Reign amplifies the echoes of salvation history in contemporary struggles for social justice.
Collins Winn demonstrates how the institution of the Jubilee year exemplifies the kingdom of God. A semicentennial celebration prescribed in the book of Leviticus, Jubilee prescribed the redistribution of wealth and freeing of prisoners. Hope for Jubilee persists in apocalyptic rhetoric, from the exhortations of Old Testament prophets to those of modern progressives.
Likewise, Jesus’s ministry, passion, and resurrection convey the justice of Jubilee and urgency of apocalypse. His conquest over death represents the ultimate vindication of the oppressed in the kingdom of God, an “outpouring of Spirit” seen today in continuing restorative efforts by oppressed communities in the face of death-dealing institutions. Historically informed and passionately written, Jesus, Jubilee, and the Politics of God’s Reign challenges readers to find Jesus in the marginalized persons of our own time.
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- Demonstrates how the institution of the Jubilee year exemplifies the kingdom of God
- Amplifies the echoes of salvation history in contemporary struggles for social justice
- Challenges readers to find Jesus in the marginalized persons of our own time
- Foreword by Sara Wilhelm Garbers
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- “YHWH Has Become King”
- The Hopes of the Prophets
- The Day of YHWH’s Apocalypse
- “The Kingdom of God Is in Your Midst”
- The Way of the Kingdom
- “Thy Kingdom Come!”
- Conclusion
Christian Collins Winn has written a welcome compelling exposition of ‘the Kingdom of God’ as it is parsed in the Bible. He has read and digested a remarkable amount of scholarship and put it to good use. Most importantly, he keeps a close eye on the emancipatory dimension of ‘the Kingdom’ as it pertains to the great emancipatory issues of race, class, and gender among us. Collins Winn has written a thoughtful, judicious manifesto to which attention must be paid.
—Dr. Walter Brueggemann, Columbia Theological Seminary
This is the book I’ve been waiting for—a clear depiction of the kingdom of God thoroughly grounded in the Old and New Testaments. Collins Winn shows us what Christian faith is all about. He offers a biblical, theological, and ethical vision that speaks directly to those who face injustice and compellingly argues through the psalms, prophets, apocalyptic writers, and Jesus himself that God is on their side. This will be a text I will return to again and again to guide my teaching, preaching, and discipleship.
—Dr. Jennifer M. McBride, author of You Shall Not Condemn: A Story of Faith and Advocacy on Death Row
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