The American Empire And The Commonwealth Of God
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Author | : David Ray Griffin |
Publisher | : Westminster John Knox Press |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 2006-05-17 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
In this book, four distinguished scholars level a powerful critique of the rapid expansion of the emerging American empire and its oppressive and destructive political, military, and economic policies. Arguing that a global Pax Americana is internationally disastrous, the authors demonstrate how America's imperialism inevitably leads to rampant irreversible ecological devastation, expanding military force for imperialistic purposes, and a grossly inequitable distribution of goods--all leading to the diminished well-being of human communities.
Author | : John Dominic Crossan |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2009-03-17 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 006174428X |
The bestselling author and prominent New Testament scholar draws parallels between 1st–century Roman Empire and 21st–century United States, showing how the radical messages of Jesus and Paul can lead us to peace today Using the tools of expert biblical scholarship and a keen eye for current events, bestselling author John Dominic Crossan deftly presents the tensions exhibited in the Bible between political power and God’s justice. Through the revolutionary messages of Jesus and Paul, Crossan reveals what the Bible has to say about land and economy, violence and retribution, justice and peace, and ultimately, redemption. He examines the meaning of “kingdom of God” prophesized by Jesus, and the equality recommended to Paul by his churches, contrasting these messages of peace against the misinterpreted apocalyptic vision from the book of Revelations, that has been co-opted by modern right-wing theologians and televangelists to justify the United State’s military actions in the Middle East.
Author | : James Bryce |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 772 |
Release | : 1891 |
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Author | : Daniel Immerwahr |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 2019-02-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0374715122 |
Named one of the ten best books of the year by the Chicago Tribune A Publishers Weekly best book of 2019 | A 2019 NPR Staff Pick A pathbreaking history of the United States’ overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empire We are familiar with maps that outline all fifty states. And we are also familiar with the idea that the United States is an “empire,” exercising power around the world. But what about the actual territories—the islands, atolls, and archipelagos—this country has governed and inhabited? In How to Hide an Empire, Daniel Immerwahr tells the fascinating story of the United States outside the United States. In crackling, fast-paced prose, he reveals forgotten episodes that cast American history in a new light. We travel to the Guano Islands, where prospectors collected one of the nineteenth century’s most valuable commodities, and the Philippines, site of the most destructive event on U.S. soil. In Puerto Rico, Immerwahr shows how U.S. doctors conducted grisly experiments they would never have conducted on the mainland and charts the emergence of independence fighters who would shoot up the U.S. Congress. In the years after World War II, Immerwahr notes, the United States moved away from colonialism. Instead, it put innovations in electronics, transportation, and culture to use, devising a new sort of influence that did not require the control of colonies. Rich with absorbing vignettes, full of surprises, and driven by an original conception of what empire and globalization mean today, How to Hide an Empire is a major and compulsively readable work of history.
Author | : J. Angelo Corlett |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2010-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1441158936 |
Author | : David Woodyard |
Publisher | : John Hunt Publishing |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2011-12-16 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1780992106 |
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 ‘God's 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?
Author | : Hilary M. Carey |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 447 |
Release | : 2011-01-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1139494090 |
In God's Empire, Hilary M. Carey charts Britain's nineteenth-century transformation from Protestant nation to free Christian empire through the history of the colonial missionary movement. This wide-ranging reassessment of the religious character of the second British empire provides a clear account of the promotional strategies of the major churches and church parties which worked to plant settler Christianity in British domains. Based on extensive use of original archival and rare published sources, the author explores major debates such as the relationship between religion and colonization, church-state relations, Irish Catholics in the empire, the impact of the Scottish Disruption on colonial Presbyterianism, competition between Evangelicals and other Anglicans in the colonies, and between British and American strands of Methodism in British North America.
Author | : Eli |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2014-07-08 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1499039522 |
Eli is a name given to Mark Germine at the time of his revelation from the God of Abraham in 1996. As such revelation makes him a prophet, he is the Prophet Eli. He had published one previous book, the Book of Eli (2011). He continues to prophesize about possibilities in the future, and many of his prophecies have already come to pass, in particular the times of trouble and danger, which began on September 11, 2001, with the demolition of the Twin Towers and other atrocities. Eli foresees a great worldwide calamity relating to future breakdown of the economy in the near future, for which we must prepare. Only by forsaking usury, totally and as soon as possible, can this calamity be averted. Our future may be as unfavorable as human extinction, but beyond this, Eli foresees a time of peace, universal love, world harmony, and paradise or heaven on earth for those who can perceive it. This will happen when we go back to our former state as represented in the mythos by the Garden of Eden and prior to the Fall of Lucifer. As a psychiatrist and theologian, Eli attributes the Fall to the development of an alter-ego identity as against the true ego, united with the soul. The Fall is at the root of psychopathic behavior that is now out of control in government, business, and elsewhere. This theme is developed broadly in this book to search for the mastermind of 9/11 and others involved. God gave Eli the mission of unveiling the events of 9/11 and using his knowledge as a psychiatrist to unveil the mastermind of 9/11 and other psychopaths in the United States who made it happen, and this is the underlying structure of this book. Eli remains a seer who has insight into hidden knowledge, giving him a special qualification to go about this work. Eli is otherwise an ordinary human being and not a messiah or demigod. He is neither perfect norr infallible. He has chosen the road of compassion and love for all of humankind, as revealed to him beginning in 1996. Before this, in 1977, he was given a vision of heaven on earth with the passing of his mother. Heaven on earth already exists, but people do not see it (Gospel of Thomas). This perception is critical to the future of humankind. Hell, the Horror, is always with us in its perception by humans but falls when this perception is abandoned. A new human being then inhabits a new world. Humankind will become One in love. Eli teaches the unity of all major world religions and science and, as a scientist, does not believe in the supernatural but, rather, a universe based on the experience in the One Mind or God. God's choice is in a universe of infinite possibilities, as held in Eli's interpretation of the One Mind Model in quantum physics.
Author | : Neil Darragh |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 205 |
Release | : 2021-11-19 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1666727113 |
What is the church really for? Some people are members of the church because it’s part of their family tradition or their culture or their identity. Others have left the church because that’s all it is in fact. Is it the best way to salvation or a way of coming closer to God? In any case, the church is not just for us or the benefits we get out of it. Very few of us would say that this is what the church is really for. There is surely something more here, something more generous, life-giving, outgoing, and gracious than what we personally get out of it. This book is about the church’s outreach beyond itself—its purpose beyond any benefits for those already its members. This book is not about a church looking inwards and worrying about itself, but about a church looking outwards. The local Christian community that we belong to is part of that much bigger, much more exhilarating project of the evolving realm of God.
Author | : Catherine Keller |
Publisher | : Fortress Press |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2007-11-08 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1451404999 |
With immediate impact and deep creativity, Catherine Kelleroffers this brief and unconventional introduction to theologicalthinking, especially as recast by process thought. Keller takes uptheology itself as a quest for religious authenticity. Through a marvelous combination of brilliant writing, story,reflection, and unabashed questioning of old shibboleths, Kellerredeems theology from its dry and predictable categories to revealwhat has always been at the heart of the theological enterprise:a personal search for intellectually honest and credible ways ofmaking sense of the loving mystery that encompasses even ourconfounding times.