1. Will to Power; 2. Under the Cover of terror; 3. Plans fro Empire; 4. Empire without Exception; 5. Continuity of Empire; 6. Biblical Perspectives on Violence and Empire; 7. Christianity in Service to Empire; 8. Alternatives to Violence; 9. Choices.
Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer is Assistant Professor of Justice and Peace Studies at the Univ. of St Thomas in St Paul. He has written many books on the relationship of religion, violence and peace.
At a time when Christian fundamentalists see the extension of American power in the world as God-given, Saving Christianity from Empire is especially welcome. In clear, strong language it demolishes the religious justification for imperialism and brings to the fore the best of the Christian heritage - the moral imperative for a nation to love and respect its neighbours.' - Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States 'Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer's Saving Christianity from Empire delineates the critical choices that face American Christians [...}, a choice between violent, world-dominating American empire supported by an apocalyptic Christianity or a genuinely democratic American republic buttressed by anon-violent, egalitarian Christianity. As Nelson-Pallmeyer makes clear, the first choice is leading America and the world to disaster, but it will not be easy to change course when both our religion and our nationalist ideology have long collaborated in promoting a fatal addiction to militarist global domination.' - Rosemary Radford Ruether Carpenter, Professor of Feminist Theology Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California
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