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American Empire and the Commonwealth of God, The - A Political, Economic, Religious Statement

American Empire and the Commonwealth of God, The - A Political, Economic, Religious Statement
Four distinguished scholars here 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. These four voices - three Christians and one Jew - persuasively indict the American empire as being diametrically opposed to divine values and powerful enough to threaten the purposes of God.

David Ray Griffin is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Theology at Claremont School of Theology, Professor of Religion Emeritus at Claremont Graduate University, and Codirector of the Center for Process Studies. He is the author of the popular bestsellers The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11 and The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions.

John B. Cobb Jr. has held many positions, including Ingraham Professor of Theology at the Claremont School of Theology; Avery Professor at the Claremont Graduate School; Fullbright Professor at the University of Mainz; and Visiting Professor at Vanderbilt, Harvard, and Chicago Divinity Schools.

Richard A. Falk is Albert G. Milbank Professor of International Law and Practice, Emeritus, at Princeton University. Falk is an honorary member of the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law and a member of the editorial boards of The Nation and The Progressive.

Catherine Keller is Professor of Constructive Theology in the Theological and Graduate Schools of Drew University.

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"This is an enormously urgent and important book. It suggests how all the religious traditions can - and must - contribute to an unprecedented civilizational transformation. I plan to use it in my own teaching and to recommend it to everyone I know."
Harvey Cox, Harvard Divinity School

From Publishers Weekly:
What do you get when you put three theologians together with an attorney? Not a joke, but a deadly serious, academic analysis of our nation, its past and its future. This collection of nine essays addresses the ideological and practical evidence and consequences of what the authors see as an often disguised imperial agenda inherent in the founding and development of the United States. The authors, besides sharing the conviction that the United States "is seeking to become the world's first borderless empire" whose imperialist policies constitute "the primary threat to the survival of the human species," share an affinity for the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead. While they object to imperialism on "political, economic and ecological grounds" as well as on "religious-spiritual-moral grounds," they spend most of the book making their secular statement; only the last three essays speak directly of religion. Keller's contribution contains a particularly interesting "debate" between the people she calls "Bush-Doctrine Idealists and the great idol-smasher John Calvin." Students of American history, government and political science, will feel quite at home within these pages, but nonacademics may need to dust off their college texts to remember the particulars of, say, the Marshall Plan.
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Author David Ray Griffin, John B. Cobb Jr., Richard A. Falk, Catherine Keller
Type Quality Paperback
Year 2006
Pages 186
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