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Article: Mary Ann Beavis. Jesus & Utopia: Looking for the Kingdom of God in the Roman World.(Book review)
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- Utopian Studies
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- March 22, 2007
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Mary Ann Beavis. Jesus & Utopia: Looking for the Kingdom of God in the Roman World. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 2006. viii + 168 pp. $22.00
This is a brief but ambitious book in which the author attempts to demonstrate the significance of utopian thought in the teaching of the historical Jesus (as conventionally distinguished from the Christ of Christian faith). To those not familiar with the study of earliest Christianity, this undertaking might seem far from novel but surprisingly, as Mary Ann Beavis is quite right to point out, it has never been attempted before. Although a vast amount of intellectual energy has been expended in making sense of what the ...
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