Evangelicals and a Theological Response to Globalization: A Commentary on Particularized Issues

Abstract

This article invites a vision of the Western Evangelical church standing in contrast to globalization particularly through a consideration of its capitalistic economic system. By considering personhood, and how economic exploitation has done violence to those on the margins of society, this work will address the commodification of human beings that has become normative as a result of globalization. A stronger call will be given for activists and theological voices within the church to begin with addressing the image of God in one another, the structures of sin in earthly society, and the church’s faithful imagination in order to consider an alternative economic system in the Kingdom of God.