A Pentecostal Political Theology for American RenewalGlobal Leadership Without Hubris
A Pentecostal Political Theology for American Renewal: Global Leadership Without Hubris
Studebaker, Steven M.
2016-10-27 00:00:00
[America’s global influence is waning. Why should Christians care? American (western) cultural values and institutions are more conducive to human flourishing and freedom than the global alternatives. This chapter begins showing that the imperial iconoclasm popular with margins Christians prevents engaging matters of national interest. It then argues that America is the preferred alternative for leadership in the emerging multipolar global commons. It finally applies a Pentecostal political theology—a pneumatological realism—to American global leadership. Pentecostal rhetoric cautions against uncritical nationalism. But American culture does, in however imperfect ways, manifest and enable the embodiment of the Spirit-breathed divine image in human life. Pentecostal praxis and its fundamental theology of the Spirit of Pentecost provide the basis for affirming American global leadership. American leadership, in the foreign policy tradition of liberal internationalism, can be a way that America exercises leadership in the way of the Spirit of Pentecost.]
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A Pentecostal Political Theology for American RenewalGlobal Leadership Without Hubris
[America’s global influence is waning. Why should Christians care? American (western) cultural values and institutions are more conducive to human flourishing and freedom than the global alternatives. This chapter begins showing that the imperial iconoclasm popular with margins Christians prevents engaging matters of national interest. It then argues that America is the preferred alternative for leadership in the emerging multipolar global commons. It finally applies a Pentecostal political theology—a pneumatological realism—to American global leadership. Pentecostal rhetoric cautions against uncritical nationalism. But American culture does, in however imperfect ways, manifest and enable the embodiment of the Spirit-breathed divine image in human life. Pentecostal praxis and its fundamental theology of the Spirit of Pentecost provide the basis for affirming American global leadership. American leadership, in the foreign policy tradition of liberal internationalism, can be a way that America exercises leadership in the way of the Spirit of Pentecost.]
Published: Oct 27, 2016
Keywords: Unipolar moment; Multipolarity; Multipolar world; American leadership; American foreign policy
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