A Political Theology of the Bureaucratic State

The Anonymous Sovereigns

Steven T. Lane

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Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
15 November 2024

Social & political philosophy; Religious ethics; Christianity

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.

By: Steven T. Lane
Imprint: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9781978717046
ISBN 10: 1978717040
Pages: 194
Publication Date: 15 November 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Undergraduate , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

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

Steven T. Lane is visiting teaching faculty in the Department of Religion at Florida State University.

Reviews for A Political Theology of the Bureaucratic State: The Anonymous Sovereigns

Scholarly discussions of political theology are broadening in productive ways, and Steven Lane's work contributes to this movement. Lane asks: what would it mean to shift the focus of political-theological analysis from singular sovereign to bureaucracy? To answer this question, he engages with social and political theory, from Max Weber to Wendy Brown, as well as with our contemporary political landscape, from the pandemic to mass incarceration. The book will give Christian social ethicists much to ponder. --Vincent Lloyd, Villanova University