عنوان

Always with You:

شماره

LA112972

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Always with You:

نام عام مواد

[Article]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

Questioning the Theological Construction of the Un/Deserving Poor

نام نخستين پديدآور

Rachel Muers

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

The cultural persistence and political salience of the 'un/deserving poor' - the moral categorization of people in poverty - rests, inter alia, on the use of Christianity to construct a class-inflected position from which to judge or categorize the lives of others. Interpretation of the claim that the poor are 'always with you' (Matthew 26:11) plays a role in this process of asymmetrical moralization, specifically through the framing of 'the poor' as a class with divinely-mandated functions and virtues. To develop theological challenges to asymmetrical moralization, I examine patterns in contemporary and historical interpretation of the gospel accounts of the woman who anoints Jesus (the wider context of the claim that the poor are 'always with you'). I propose that, while many interpreters attempt to use these texts to establish a position from which to judge both the woman and 'the poor', they can be reread in a way that undermines that construction. The cultural persistence and political salience of the 'un/deserving poor' - the moral categorization of people in poverty - rests, inter alia, on the use of Christianity to construct a class-inflected position from which to judge or categorize the lives of others. Interpretation of the claim that the poor are 'always with you' (Matthew 26:11) plays a role in this process of asymmetrical moralization, specifically through the framing of 'the poor' as a class with divinely-mandated functions and virtues. To develop theological challenges to asymmetrical moralization, I examine patterns in contemporary and historical interpretation of the gospel accounts of the woman who anoints Jesus (the wider context of the claim that the poor are 'always with you'). I propose that, while many interpreters attempt to use these texts to establish a position from which to judge both the woman and 'the poor', they can be reread in a way that undermines that construction. The cultural persistence and political salience of the 'un/deserving poor' - the moral categorization of people in poverty - rests, inter alia, on the use of Christianity to construct a class-inflected position from which to judge or categorize the lives of others. Interpretation of the claim that the poor are 'always with you' (Matthew 26:11) plays a role in this process of asymmetrical moralization, specifically through the framing of 'the poor' as a class with divinely-mandated functions and virtues. To develop theological challenges to asymmetrical moralization, I examine patterns in contemporary and historical interpretation of the gospel accounts of the woman who anoints Jesus (the wider context of the claim that the poor are 'always with you'). I propose that, while many interpreters attempt to use these texts to establish a position from which to judge both the woman and 'the poor', they can be reread in a way that undermines that construction. The cultural persistence and political salience of the 'un/deserving poor' - the moral categorization of people in poverty - rests, inter alia, on the use of Christianity to construct a class-inflected position from which to judge or categorize the lives of others. Interpretation of the claim that the poor are 'always with you' (Matthew 26:11) plays a role in this process of asymmetrical moralization, specifically through the framing of 'the poor' as a class with divinely-mandated functions and virtues. To develop theological challenges to asymmetrical moralization, I examine patterns in contemporary and historical interpretation of the gospel accounts of the woman who anoints Jesus (the wider context of the claim that the poor are 'always with you'). I propose that, while many interpreters attempt to use these texts to establish a position from which to judge both the woman and 'the poor', they can be reread in a way that undermines that construction.

تاريخ نشر

2021

توصيف ظاهري

42-60

عنوان

International Journal of Public Theology

شماره جلد

15/1

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1569-7320

اصطلاح موضوعی

class and theology

اصطلاح موضوعی

moralisation of poverty

اصطلاح موضوعی

poverty

اصطلاح موضوعی

undeserving poor

اصطلاح موضوعی

woman anointing Jesus

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Rachel Muers

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/15697320-12341641

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y