Exile and Empire: Faithful Living in the Economic System

The global economic system is a contemporary form of empire with profound influence on people's lives. In this book, Dr. Peter McDowell explores missiological research on the relationship between gospel and culture to critically examine Western Christianity's relationship to the empire. McDowell highlights the economy's underlying values, critiques the Western history of colonization, and engages the experiences of faith communities in Scripture, who lived through the Egyptian, Babylonian a...