'Biblical Resistance Hermeneutics within a Caribbean Context' offers a biblical hermeneutic that acknowledges the importance of the socio-ideological interests, theological agendas, and social practices that produced the biblical texts, as well as the socio-cultural context of the contemporary reader.

Oral Thomas is a Methodist minister in the Methodist Church in the Caribbean and the Americas (MCCA) and Lecturer in Biblical Studies and Theology at the United Theological College of the West Indies.

Introduction 1. Tracking biblical hermeneutical practices within the Caribbean 2. Analysing biblical hermeneutics within the Caribbean 3. Putting Philemon in its place 4. Readings of Philemon 5. Towards a biblical resistant hermeneutic within a Caribbean context 6. Implications of a biblical resistant hermeneutic within the Caribbean context. Conclusion