{"id":2824,"date":"2007-11-01T00:10:54","date_gmt":"2007-11-01T00:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2007\/11\/colossians-remixed-34.html"},"modified":"2007-11-01T00:10:54","modified_gmt":"2007-11-01T00:10:54","slug":"colossians-remixed-34","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2007\/11\/colossians-remixed-34.html","title":{"rendered":"Colossians Remixed 34"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most importantly, the ethic of relationship and the ethic of narrative leads to an ethic of <em>secession <\/em> (from the empire) in Walsh and Keesmaat&#8217;s study of Colossians, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FColossians-Remixed-Subverting-Brian-Walsh%2Fdp%2F0830827382%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1189866976%26sr%3D1-1&amp;tag=jescre-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\">Colossians Remixed<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=jescre-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important;margin:0px !important\" \/><\/em>. <!--more|inline--><br \/>\nW-K begin with Wendell Berry &#8212; and his &#8220;The Mad Farmer, Flying the Flag of Rough Branch, Secedes from the Union&#8221; and argue that Berry&#8217;s poem reflects the kind of thing Paul was saying in Colossians.<br \/>\nIs Colossians 3:5, with its putting to death of sexuality a world-denying ethic? No, they argue, it is an ethic of secession from the ideology of sexual consumerism.<br \/>\nIt is an ethic of sexual life in the face of sexual death.<br \/>\n&#8220;Secede,&#8221; they say, &#8220;from the unholy unions of power and money, genius and war, outer space and inner vacuity, that distort your lives&#8221; (160). The list of 3:5 is important: &#8220;Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry.&#8221;<br \/>\nSex outside of marriage, distortion of character, uncontrolled appetites, and self-gratification are Paul&#8217;s concerns. Sexual sin is &#8220;fundamentally a matter of covetousness&#8221; (160). Berry calls this &#8220;industrial sexuality&#8221; &#8212; consumeristic, capitalistic sex.<br \/>\nThese sins lead to economic sin and idolatry &#8212; in the prophets &#8220;idolatry invariably resulted in sexual sin wedded to economic injustice&#8221; (162).<br \/>\nHumans are homo religiosus &#8212; they yearn for God. Made to love God. But humans, whenever they turn from God, become idolatrous. The images\/idols to which we turn distort us because we are remade into the image of our idols\/whatever gods we have. This pursuit cuts us off from Christ, from our true image-bearing nature, and from we really desire. God&#8217;s wrath is against this (3:6). &#8220;Wrath is the right response to screwing around with idols&#8221; (164).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most importantly, the ethic of relationship and the ethic of narrative leads to an ethic of secession (from the empire) in Walsh and Keesmaat&#8217;s study of Colossians, Colossians Remixed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":298,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colossians"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Colossians Remixed 34 - Jesus Creed<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2007\/11\/colossians-remixed-34.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Colossians Remixed 34 - 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