God`s Reign and the End of Empires

includes index and biblioraphy

1. The Globalized Empire .......21 The needs for social Theology ..............23 Problems of the Global Village ............26 The economic system ..............38 Global Problems revisited ............45 The problem of Alternatives............49 2. The biblical Diagnosis ..............57 The resourse to Scripture ............59 The logic of Babel .............63 Biblical Radicality ...........73 3. Escaping from Empire ............81 The election of Abraham ..............83 The story of the Exodus ..............86 The permanence of the Logic of Adam ...........95 The reign of God ......99 4. The strategy of the Messiah .............107 The reign of God ..............111 The rign of the Poor .............114 The community of Disciples..........122 The conflict .............130 The meaning of the Cross...............141 5. The messianic communities ...............151 The imperial society ..............153 The social stratification of the Empire ..............157 The irruption of God`s Reign ................163 The social level of the First christians...........170 The transformation of social relations .............186 The persistence of the Christian Model ............205 6. The communities and the Empire ..............215 The universal functions of the new Society ............217 The messiah and the powers ................224 Christian participation in the State ..................249 The meaning of History .............256 7. The Signs of our Times ............269 The problem of the signs of the Times ............272 The end of constantinianism ..............274 The new forms of Dissidence ..............286 The new popular economy .............299 The relevance of Nonviolence ..........309 8. Toward a New Society ..........319 With all people ..............321 Christian effectiveness.............331 Concrete practices ...............335 The character of our proposal .....................349