Imperial Theology Affect The Hearing Of The Gospel Analysis

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One of the questions that I thought was the most important was, "How does the imperial theology affect the hearing of the Gospel?" I feel like Carter answers this to a degree. Carter talks about that with out knowing the effect that the Roman Empire had on the authors it is unclean what the purpose of the Gospel was. Carter goes on to say that the imperial theology or world view changes this gospel completly. I find it interesting to think about the Gospel in this manner. I think it has to go back with the fact that when the Gospel is talked about it is hardly ever looked through the lense of the Roman Empire.

The other thing that I thought was important was, how the wedding parable is related to Roman rule being a punishment for Isreal.

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