Nilay Saiya The Global Politics of Jesus: A Christian Case for Church-State Separation Oxford: OUP, 2022. Nilay Saiya is an Indian-American scholar, raised in Pennsylvania, and is now Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Global Affairs at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Saiya comes to this book with the experience of an immigrant in the American Bible Belt as well as the perspective of an international scholar with an interest in the role of religion in global affairs. His book offers a neo-Hauerwasian critique of both Christian Nationalism, which he calls “Christianism,” as well as political isolationism, which he calls “Detachment.” He believes the ethics of Jesus call his followers to renounce worldly politics, not getting comfortable or cosey with governing authorities, while bearing faithful witness to the gospel in as part of their “prophetic witness.”
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Nilay Saiya The Global Politics of Jesus: A Christian Case for Church-State Separation Oxford: OUP, 2022. Nilay Saiya is an Indian-American scholar, raised in Pennsylvania, and is now Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Global Affairs at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Saiya comes to this book with the experience of an immigrant in the American Bible Belt as well as the perspective of an international scholar with an interest in the role of religion in global affairs. His book offers a neo-Hauerwasian critique of both Christian Nationalism, which he calls “Christianism,” as well as political isolationism, which he calls “Detachment.” He believes the ethics of Jesus call his followers to renounce worldly politics, not getting comfortable or cosey with governing authorities, while bearing faithful witness to the gospel in as part of their “prophetic witness.”