Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Spring 2005
Abstract
The patriotism of empire is a failed patriotism that longs for empire as the way to achieve security. America needs instead a repenting patriotism, in the tradition of Lincoln, that recognizes public accountability and moves toward peacebuilding.
Publication Title
Word & World
ISSN
0275-5270
Publisher
Luther Seminary
Volume
25
Issue
2
First Page
420
Last Page
427
Published Citation
Simpson, Gary M. “Civil Society and Congregations as Public Moral Companions.” Word & World 15, no. 4 (September 1995): 420–27.
Recommended Citation
Simpson, Gary M., "Hope in the Face of Empire: Failed Patriotism, Civil International Publicity, and Patriotic Peacebuilding" (2005). Faculty Publications. 197.
https://digitalcommons.luthersem.edu/faculty_articles/197
Included in
American Studies Commons, Religious Thought, Theology and Philosophy of Religion Commons