Evangelicals and empire : Christian alternatives to the political status quo - Benson, Bruce Ellis, 1960-; Heltzel, Peter (Grand Rapids, Mich. : Brazos Press, 2008)
Foreword / Nicholas Wolterstorff -- Introduction / Bruce Ellis Benson and Peter Goodwin Heltzel -- Present. Dangerous religion : George W. Bush's theology of empire / Jim Wallis -- The contested church : multiple others of evangelical multitude / Helene Slessarev-Jamir and Bruce Ellis Benson -- Acting in common : how the flesh of multitude can become incarnate words against empire / M. Gail Hamner -- Betrayed by a kiss : evangelicals and U.S. empire / Charles W. Amjad-Ali and Lester Edwin J. Ruiz -- Empire-building or democracy-at-work? : the growing influence of white U.S. evangelical NGO lobbying at the United Nations and in Washington, DC / Jennifer Butler and Glenn Zuber -- The gospel of freedom, or another gospel? : theology, empire, and American foreign policy / James K. A. Smith -- Liberality vs. liberalism / John Milbank -- Past. Historians and the past tense : evangelium and imperium as genealogies of the concept of sovereignty / Patrick Provost-Smith -- Empire's future religion : the hidden competition between postmillennial American expansionism and premillennial evangelical Christianity / S|bastien Fath -- Political complexities and rivalries of pneuma and imperia / Kurt Anders Richardson -- Stepchildren of the empire : the formation of a Latino evang|lico identity / Juan F. Mart|nez -- Empire, race, and the evangelical multitude : Jesse Jackson, Jim Wallis, and evangelical coalitions for justice / Eleanor Moody-Shepherd and Peter Goodwin Heltzel -- Where are the Pentecostals in an age of empire? / Elaine Padilla and Dale T. Irvin -- Intermezzo : a discussion between Donald W. Dayton and Christian T. Collins Winn about empire and evangelicals -- Future. Empire and transcendence : Hardt and Negri's challenge to theology and ethics / Mark Lewis Taylor -- Empire and the ethics of opacity : the end of theology and the beginning(s) of theological thinking / Corey D. B. Walker -- What empire, which multitude? : Pentecostalism and social liberation in North America and sub-Saharan Africa / Amos Yong and Samuel Zalanga -- In praise of profanity : a theological defense of the secular / Michael Horton -- The future of evangelical theology in an age of empire : postfoundational and postcolonial / Mabiala Kenzo and John R. Franke -- Evangelicalism and/as new Constantinianism : globalization, secularity, and the heart of the Gospel / Paul Lim -- Love in times of empire : theopolitics today / Mario Costa, Catherine Keller, and Anna Mercedes -- Afterword / Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Negri, Antonio, -- 1933-; Evangelicalism -- United States; Christianity and politics -- United States; Christianity and international affairs; Imperialism; United States -- Foreign relations