tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2990991178749505824.post2109201662551773324..comments2023-03-30T20:07:20.375-04:00Comments on If Not Empire, What? A Survey of the Bible: World Without BordersAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12886742015394327859noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2990991178749505824.post-84284237008637632022017-07-25T08:56:35.738-04:002017-07-25T08:56:35.738-04:00Stephen, as a Jesus-follower, I expect to be part ...Stephen, as a Jesus-follower, I expect to be part of a "tribe" that subverts imperial assumptions. Obviously that assumption needs to be explained and supported (we try to do that in our book), but it is the opening premise, as I see it. But not every effort to bring social or economic order is imperial and we must not pretend the only critical choice is between anarchy and empire. Though some in the biblical record apparently held such a view, as a whole the Bible does not. So localism, yes, especially an engaged localism. Better yet an engaged localism that is networked around the world with other communities of faith. Berry Friesenhttp://www.bible-and-empire.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2990991178749505824.post-19937130136845556562017-07-24T19:55:05.843-04:002017-07-24T19:55:05.843-04:00Yes, Stephen, it's been the eventually pyrrhic...Yes, Stephen, it's been the eventually pyrrhic victory of a sort of tribalism, that defined by Warren Buffett, where he calls it class warfare, which his tribe of financial elites has won. By no means is the defeated class very aware of the alt-right, which was a kind of bogeyman for liberals to latch on to, to demonize their critics, the mass of economic losers in the war against them by oligarchs, as irredeemable deplorables who need no attention paid to. Fran Macadamhttp://mennonite.exoss.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2990991178749505824.post-24235054575908465722017-07-24T09:04:50.280-04:002017-07-24T09:04:50.280-04:00What would you propose as a response to this? Th...What would you propose as a response to this? The localization option is akin to me to a Benedict Plan where we recluse ourselves. This has been fine for Amish but harder for me as a person of engaged faith and privilege to embrace. Liberalism has come to mean privilege to me in many ways. The outcome of globalization or globalism has meant tribalism to some degree. Do we work to include the tribes or work in ways that subvert the whole system which very well may be a path toward anarchy which isn't in itself problematic but at this day and age would likely be quite violent?Stephen Krisshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00094613511877262464noreply@blogger.com