Scot McKnight is Karl A. Olsson Professor in Religious Studies at North Park University, Chicago, Illinois. His many other books include The Jesus Creed: Loving God,Loving Others; A Community Called Atonement; NIV Application Commentary volumes on Galatians and 1 Peter;and (co-edited with James D. G. Dunn) The Historical Jesus in Recent Research. He also writes the award-winning Jesus Creed blog at patheos.com.
-- Jerry L. Sumney
Lexington Theological Seminary
"Scot McKnight has given us a bold study of this controversial
little letter. He stares unflinchingly into the realities of
slavery. . . . Working from conservative positions on critical
issues, McKnight sees the letter to Philemon as demanding that the
church today work in society to bring reconciliation and liberation
to a world in need of both." -- Jennifer Glancy
author of Slavery in Early Christianity
"With thoughtful attention to the painful realities of Roman
slavery, McKnight invites churches to approach this 'deeply
disturbing letter' as an invitation to become spaces of
reconciliation, communities that subvert slavery 'by naming it, by
fighting against it, and by embodying a new way of life.' " --
Michael F. Bird
Ridley College, Melbourne
"A lucid and illuminating verse-by-verse analysis of Paul's letter
to Philemon. Scot McKnight soberly tackles the topics of Roman
slavery, reconciliation, and Paul's vision for churches to be
dominated not by power relationships but by sibling-like
relationships rooted in the new creation. McKnight makes this small
letter stand tall among the writings of the Pauline corpus. A sheer
joy to read!"
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