Evangelicals and Empire: Christian Alternatives to the Political Status Quo [Paperback]

Bruce Ellis Benson (Editor), Peter Goodwin Heltzel (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 2008

This groundbreaking collection considers empire from a global perspective, exploring the role of evangelicals in political, social, and economic engagement at a time when empire is alternately denounced and embraced. It brings noted thinkers from a range of evangelical perspectives together to engage the most explosive and discussed theorists of empire in the first decade of the twenty-first century--Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri. Using their work as a springboard, the contributors grapple with the concept of empire and how evangelicalism should operate in the world of empire.

Editorial Reviews

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This groundbreaking collection considers empire from a global perspective, exploring the role of evangelicals in political, social, and economic engagement at a time when empire is alternately denounced and embraced. It brings noted thinkers from a range of theological perspectives together to engage the most explosive and discussed theorists of empire in the first decade of the twenty-first century, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri. Using their work as a springboard, the contributors challenge evangelicalism's identification with right-wing politics and grapple with the natures of both empire and evangelicalism.ContributorsJim WallisHelene Slessarev-Jamir and Bruce Ellis BensonM. Gail HamnerLester Edwin J. Ruiz and Charles W. Amjad-AliJennifer Butler and Glenn ZuberJames K. A. SmithJohn MilbankPatrick Provost-SmithSébastien FathKurt Anders RichardsonJuan MartínezEleanor Moody-Shepherd and Peter Goodwin HeltzelElaine Padilla and Dale T. IrvinDonald W. Dayton and Christian T. Collins WinnMark Lewis TaylorCorey D. B. WalkerAmos Yong and Samuel ZalangaMichael S. HortonMabiala Kenzo and John FrankePaul LimMario Costa, Catherine Keller, and Anna Mercedes"Powerful, urgent, and rigorous. Evangelicals and Empire's diverse voices combine solid scholarship and moral passion to produce a challenging rethinking of what it means to be evangelical."--Ronald J. Sider, president of Evangelicals for Social Action"Evangelicals and Empire is a significant book because it deals with religious groups that are usually identified with the politics of empire. Helping the reader understand the deeper reasons for the connection of empire and religion, the essays in this book come together to provide a truly invaluable resource for our time as they flesh out alternative resources that resist empire within the evangelical traditions. The future belongs to such efforts that seek to identify new horizons for the interplay of religion and politics."--Joerg Rieger, Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University

About the Author

Bruce Ellis Benson (PhD, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) is professor of philosophy and chair of the department at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois. He is also the author of Graven Ideologies and Pious Nietzsche. Peter Goodwin Heltzel (PhD, Boston University) is assistant professor of systematic theology at New York Theological Seminary in New York, New York, and coeditor of Theology in Global Context.

Product Details

• Paperback: 336 pages
• Publisher: Brazos Press (October 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1587432358
• ISBN-13: 978-1587432354
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #606,308 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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