Against Empire

Is there more that unites or divides black, feminist, liberation, and post-liberal theologies? Or put otherwise, what do figures such as Cornel West, Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, Ignacio Ellacuría, Jon Sobrino, and Stanley Hauerwas have in common? Matthew Eggemeier makes the clear and compelling case that the answer is a certain posture of resistance to empire and disillusionment with liberal democracy that includes at least some fashion of either an implicit or explicit commitment to radical democracy. The case made does not paper over the many differences, and even at times the public debates, among these respective schools of thought and between these landmark thinkers—most especially in terms of the types of oppression they are most attentive to, whether it be racism, sexism, poverty, or political violence. But instead of dwelling on these differences, Eggemeier describes his task as “coalition building” that draws these Christian thinkers into a “diverse theological assemblage”...

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