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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 it makes against its citizens.
Steven T. Lane is visiting teaching faculty in the Department of Religion at Florida State University.
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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