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Discerning the Powers in Post-Colonial Africa and Asia: A Treatise on Christian Statecraft

Discerning the Powers in Post-Colonial Africa and Asia: A Treatise on Christian Statecraft

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PhilosophyReligion General General Political Science

ISBN10: 9812875107
ISBN13: 9789812875105
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Feb 24 2016
Pages: 182
Weight: 1.03
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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 and global Christian circles. It approaches the debate by delving into the pacifist Anabaptist political theology and delineates empirically how sovereign statehood in post-colonial Africa and Asia has fallen into the hands of the devil Satan, as a 'fallen power' in the Foucaultian terms of power structures, techniques and episteme. While the book offers intervention schemes and options, it holds that Christian statecraft remains the source of hope to effectively address a number of serious global issues. By extension, the book is thus an invitation to ignite debates on the suitability of Christian statecraft and the nexus between spirituality and world politics, making it especially interesting for scholars and students in the fields of International Politics, Politics of Asian and African States, Post-colonial Studies and Political Theology.

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