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A Political Theology of the Bureaucratic State

The Anonymous Sovereigns

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A Political Theology of the Bureaucratic State

The Anonymous Sovereigns

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Liberal democracies of the twenty-first century face the continuing economic tensions of globalization and the various populist political responses. In A Political Theology of the Bureaucratic State, Steven T. Lane argues that a deeper problem exists underneath the neoliberal system of contemporary democratic capitalism—the bureaucratic state and the ways it deploys its sovereignty. Yet these problems have received little attention from Christian political thinkers in the fields of ethics or political theology. By bringing thinkers from across the academic disciplines, from political philosophy and economics to biblical interpretation and public policy, and using modern case-studies related to public health and welfare state, Lane address the foundational issues affecting liberal democracies and the claims to power they make against their citizens.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Irony of Political History
Chapter 1: Toward a Typology of Sovereignty
Chapter 2: Who Coerces the Coercers?
Chapter 3: Who Shapes the Shapers?
Chapter 4: Bureaucracy Ascendant
Chapter 5: The Dominion of God
Chapter 6: Resting from Coercion

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Published Oct 31 2024
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 172
ISBN 9781978717046
Imprint Fortress Academic
Illustrations 10 Tables
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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