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The events of our century call for theologians and participants in mission to develop a theology of resistance to regimes that promote “dead aid†and deny a large majority of the world’s population the fullness of life. The church requires a political formation that adequately responds to the forces of the global empire represented by a religio-capitalistic economy.
Jonathan thanks for the input. However we also need to understand that despite the few subversive voices expressing the agency within the religio-capitalistic economy, at large the churches themselves are culprits of such religio-capitalistic surveillance within an institutional paradigm. This creates vulnerability especially within the activist groups hence a constant lack of resources and initiative to develop such theologies of resistance. The academia therefore would be more privileged to draw on the activist agency towards a more critical and analytical debate. The political formation you are proposing for the church would suffice only if the churches chose to devolve power and avoid neo-colonial soft-paternalism and its tenets as intermediary chains to reinforce power and control.