Church in the Time of Empire EPUB
by David Woodyard
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Literature abounds on the nature of empire and the ways in which America embodies it. As a nation, we have rigorously attempted to define the reality in which other peoples live. One could think of empire as jurisdiction without boundaries. As the nation that ';got right', we have an obligation to impose our social, political, and economic orders on other nations. Several decades of ';perpetual wars' document that. Unfortunately, religious legitimation is prominent and persistent. We designate ourselves as the biblical ';city on a hill', an ';indispensible nation', and even ';Gods chosen people'. This echoes in the declaration of President George W. Bush that, ';God wanted me to bomb Iraq'. What is missing in the literature is centering the issue in the life and mission of the church. Has the church been a co-conspirator in the authorization of the American empire? Has the church an obligation to terminate the symbol-lending that anoints empire with holy water? Is scripture a warrant for seeing the biblical people as a community of perpetual resistance? Can the sacraments be instrumental in establishing opposition to empire? Can the church be Rome in reverse?
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- Publisher:Collective Ink
- Publication Date:16/12/2011
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