Discerning the Powers in Post-Colonial Africa and Asia A Treatise on
Qualifying post-Westphalian sovereign statehood as a ‘power’ as argued for in Hendrik Berkhoff’s political theology, this book addresses the decades-long theological-spiritual debate between Christian realism and Christian pacifism in U.S. foreign policy
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Discerning the Powers in PostColonial Africa and Asia A Treatise on Christian Statecraft
Discerning the Powers in Post-Colonial Africa and Asia
Pak Nung Wong
Discerning the Powers in Post-Colonial Africa and Asia A Treatise on Christian Statecraft
Pak Nung Wong Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies University of Bath Bath, UK
ISBN 978-981-287-510-5 ISBN 978-981-287-511-2 DOI 10.1007/978-981-287-511-2
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About the Book
Despite the Cold War that ended in the early 1990s, the debate between Christian realism and Christian pacifism in the US foreign policy and global Christian circles continues. Once publicly indicated his theological undertaking was with the forefather of the Cold War Christian realism – Reinhold Niebuhr – President Barrack Obama’s signature ‘pivot to Asia’ policy since 2011 has also echoed such return of Christian realist spirituality. In light of the ongoing theological debate underpinning US Christian statecraft, this book will conduct a closer examination of it by first dwelling into the Dutch theologian Hendrik Berkhof’s political theology of ‘the Powers’. Then, a closer look into the Anabaptist Christian pacifism will inform a nuanced political theology – a ‘sociology of the Powers’ – which qualifies the post-Westphalian sovereign statehood as a fallen power and therefore is within the province of the devil Satan’s sovereignty. To substantiate this new political theology empirically, this book employs a Foucaultian analytical framework which elaborates ‘governmentality’ in terms of structure, technique and episteme wh
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