Download or read book Acts of Empire, Second Edition written by Christina Petterson and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-03-23 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book combines New Testament studies and cultural theory, and analyzes Acts of the Apostles as a product of imperial discourse. In five chapters, Christina Petterson engages Acts with ideology, gender, class, and empire with different emphases. All of these analyses argue that Christianity can never be set outside discourses of exploitation, discrimination, and hierarchies, but must always be set within them.