Western Christian theology has been slow to respond to the persistent challenge of global religious diversity. Though there are a few notable exceptions, in the main, Christian theology continues either to ignore or to dismiss the perspectives, texts, practices, and experiences of religious others as outside the bounds of the relevant, let alone the normative. David R. Brockman breaks new ground by examining how boundaries between Christianity and religious others are discursively constructed in and through theological discourse; how those basic boundary-drawing processes exercise power; and how that exercise of power can distort Christian theology itself.

Dialectical Democracy through Christian Thought offers an accessible yet theologically groundbreaking intervention into the battle over the role of government in the market. Digging beneath the surface of political discourse - liberal and conservative - this book shows that the fight over policy involves a fundamental disagreement about who we are as human beings: independent individuals, or essentially social creatures. This book seeks to move beyond the present impasse by advocating an alternative: dialectical democracy. Drawn from the view of the human person that emerges from the Christian scriptures, dialectical democracy would foster a creative tension between individuality and social relations.

This volume offers an accessible yet theologically innovative exploration of a question that is key to Christianity's relation with the post/modern world: what happens to Christian theology when it follows its traditional habit of excluding religious others from the theological conversation? The central argument of this book is that the exclusion of non-Christian voices blinds Christian theology not only to its own character, but also to the God to whom it seeks to be faithful. The work digs beneath the surface of the dominant modes of contemporary Western Christian theology to examine dynamics of inclusion, marginalization, and exclusion in theological discourse about religious others and identifies the negative effects of those dynamics on Christian theology itself.

Dialectical Democracy through Christian Thought offers an accessible yet theologically groundbreaking intervention into the battle over the role of government in the market. This book shows that the fight over policy involves a fundamental disagreement about who we are as human beings: independent individuals, or essentially social creatures.