A Political Theology for the Us-Mexico Borderlands - (Political and Public Theologies) by Bryan M Ellrod (Paperback)

About the Book

Through a series of readings of biblical texts, that attend political, theological, and ethical questions inspired by the US-Mexico Borderlands, the book presents a political theology that chastens political self-determination with the ethical demand of the outsider it excludes.

Book Synopsis

Since 1994, over 4,000 human remains have been recovered from the Sonoran Desert. Victims of a border enforcement strategy that weaponizes the landscape against migrants, the ever-growing ledger of the dead counts the human cost at which the present political paradigm is secured. Through a series of readings of biblical texts, informed by philosophical, theological, and legal theory, this book facilitates a reckoning between the self-determining polity and the excluded outsider's ethical demand. Finding in their demand the motivation for novel forms of legal interpretation and political agency, Ellrod sketches a hopeful, life-affirming alternative to Realist Political Theologies of Migration.

About the Author

Bryan M. Ellrod, Ph.D. (2021), Emory University, is Director of Pre-Law at Wake Forest University and teaches in the Interdisciplinary Humanities Program. His research and teaching engage the intersection of law and the humanities, with a special interest in ethics.