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“Today's social and political climate often pits conservative or traditional Christianity against 'progressive' Christianity. But what is progressive Christianity? What is a progressive Christian? What is a progressive church? Christianity in Blue answers these questions by drawing from biblical scholarship, Christian history, theology, popular culture, philosophy, and cultural anthropology. Kaden shows how socially liberal values and progressive attitudes can be the fruits of taking seriously both the Bible and Christian tradition. ... Being a progressive Christian is an ethical exhortation to 'uplift human personality,' as Martin Luther King Jr. once said.”

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“How were relations of power instrumental in forming law as an object of discourse in the Gospel of Matthew and in the Letters of Paul? David A. Kaden explores the social and cultural forces that generate legal discourse. He compares the operation of these forces in early Christianity and early Judaism, Roman law, and modern ethnographies in the field of legal anthropology.”