Paul's confrontation with class: the Letter to Philemon as counter-hegemonic discourse. From: Cross Currents | Date: March 22, 2006| Author: Lyons, Kirk D., Sr. | COPYRIGHT 2006 Association for Religion and Intellectual Life. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

The claim that the Pauline letters have been most useful to systems of domination and oppression, is clear, well-documented, and has garnered proficient and erudite response. (1) The cultural currency of the Letter to Philemon in that regard has been emended by a hermeneutical tradition that, although widely debated, (2) has sustained as a normative reading. In addition to an interpretation that served to support systemic oppression, the letter has been regarded as bearing little o...

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