Evangelicals and empire : Christian alternatives to the political status quo / edited by Bruce Ellis Benson and Peter Goodwin Heltzel.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Nicholas Wolterstorff -- Introduction / Bruce Ellis Benson and Peter Goodwin Heltzel -- Sect. I. Present -- 1. Dangerous Religion: George W. Bush's Theology of Empire / Jim Wallis -- 2. The Contested Church: Multiple Others of Evangelical Multitude / Helene Slessarev-Jamir and Bruce Ellis Benson -- 3. Acting in Common: How the Flesh of Multitude Can Become Incarnate Words against Empire / M. Gail Hamner -- 4. Betrayed by a Kiss: Evangelicals and U.S. Empire / Charles W. Amjad-Ali and Lester Edwin J. Ruiz -- 5. Empire-Building or Democracy-at-Work? The Growing Influence of White U.S. Evangelical NGO Lobbying at the United Nations and in Washington, D.C. / Jennifer Butler and Glenn Zuber -- 6. The Gospel of Freedom, or Another Gospel? Theology, Empire, and American Foreign Policy / James K. A. Smith -- 7. Liberality vs. Liberalism / John Milbank -- Sect. II. Past -- 8. Historians and the Past Tense: Evangelium and Imperium as Genealogies of the Concept of Sovereignty / Patrick Provost-Smith -- 9. Empire's Future Religion: The Hidden Competition between Postmillennial American Expansionism and Premillennial Evangelical Christianity / Sebastien Fath -- 10. Political Complexities and Rivalries of Pneuma and Imperia / Kurt Anders Richardson -- 11. Stepchildren of the Empire: The Formation of a Latino Evangelico Identity / Juan F. Martinez -- 12. Empire, Race, and the Evangelical Multitude: Jesse Jackson, Jim Wallis, and Evangelical Coalitions for Justice / Eleanor Moody-Shepherd and Peter Goodwin Heltzel -- 13. Where Are the Pentecostals in an Age of Empire? / Elaine Padilla and Dale T. Irvin -- 14. Intermezzo: A Discussion between Donald W. Dayton and Christian T. Collins Winn about Empire and Evangelicals -- Sect. III. Future -- 15. Empire and Transcendence: Hardt and Negri's Challenge to Theology and Ethics / Mark Lewis Taylor -- 16. Empire and the Ethics of Opacity: The End of Theology and the Beginning(s,i of Theological Thinking / Corey D. B. Walker -- 17. What Empire, Which Multitude? Pentecostalism and Social Liberation in North America and Sub-Saharan Africa / Amos Yong and Samuel Zalanga -- 18. In Praise of Profanity: A Theological Defense of the Secular / Michael Horton -- 19. The Future of Evangelical Theology in an Age of Empire: Postfoundational and Postcolonial / Mabiala Kenzo and John R. Franke -- 20. Evangelicalism and/as New Constantinianism: Globalization, Secularity, and the Heart of the Gospel / Paul Lim -- 21. Love in Times of Empire: Theopolitics Today / Mario Costa, Catherine Keller and Anna Mercedes -- Afterword / Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri.

"This 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."--BOOK JACKET.