Comments on: Uncle Tom – check it http://blog.jonmadison.com/archives/2005/02/19/uncle-tom-check-it/ Mon, 26 Dec 2011 19:04:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: jon http://blog.jonmadison.com/archives/2005/02/19/uncle-tom-check-it/comment-page-1/#comment-1718 jon Tue, 22 Feb 2005 06:29:52 +0000 http://www.smartbrother.org/archives/2005/02/19/uncle-tom-check-it/#comment-1718 thanks a *grip* for more references. i need to tackle the first link first. thanks a *grip* for more references. i need to tackle the first link first.

]]> By: George http://blog.jonmadison.com/archives/2005/02/19/uncle-tom-check-it/comment-page-1/#comment-1606 George Sun, 20 Feb 2005 15:37:16 +0000 http://www.smartbrother.org/archives/2005/02/19/uncle-tom-check-it/#comment-1606 In a <a href="http://www.reason.com/0502/fe.mg.neal.shtml" rel="nofollow">recent Reason interview,</a> Neal Stephenson mentions Walter Wink: <i>[...] Wink’s interpretation of the New Testament is that Jesus was not a pacifist milksop but (among other things) was encouraging people to resist the dominant power system of the era, that being the Roman Empire. Mind you, Wink is no fan of violence either, and he devotes a lot of ink to attacking what he calls the Myth of Redemptive Violence, which he sees as a meme by which domination systems are perpetuated. But he is clearly all in favor of people standing up against oppressive power systems of all stripes. [...]</i> Knowing nothing about Wink before reading that, I went looking and found <a href="http://bob.swe.uni-linz.ac.at/euu/Unifier200203/king.html" rel="nofollow">this,</a> and <a href="http://www.cres.org/star/_wink.htm" rel="nofollow">this</a> and <a href="http://www.bridges-across.org/ba/powers/index.html" rel="nofollow">this.</a> (And, to come closer to the impetus for your post, <a href="http://www.bridges-across.org/ba/wink.htm" rel="nofollow">this.</a>) Lastly, a <a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/PrintStory.pl?document_id=134544890&zsection_id=268448406&slug=uncletom29m&date=20020929" rel="nofollow">Seattle Times article from September '02</a> has some academics' takes on "Uncle Tom's Cabin." In a recent Reason interview, Neal Stephenson mentions Walter Wink: [...] Wink’s interpretation of the New Testament is that Jesus was not a pacifist milksop but (among other things) was encouraging people to resist the dominant power system of the era, that being the Roman Empire. Mind you, Wink is no fan of violence either, and he devotes a lot of ink to attacking what he calls the Myth of Redemptive Violence, which he sees as a meme by which domination systems are perpetuated. But he is clearly all in favor of people standing up against oppressive power systems of all stripes. [...]

Knowing nothing about Wink before reading that, I went looking and found this, and this and this. (And, to come closer to the impetus for your post, this.)

Lastly, a Seattle Times article from September ’02 has some academics’ takes on “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.”

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