Jesus’ birth was a deeply subversive affair in at least a few ways. Perhaps most obviously, the proclamation of the angels recorded by Luke was a direct assault upon the power of the Roman Emperor. When Augustus was finally crowned in 9 BC, the assembly explains their reasoning thus: Divine providence which orders our livesContinue reading “Gods, Angels, and Emperors: Subversion and Incarnation (Luke 2)”
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Ben Neviim 