ABSTRACT
This chapter suggests that one of the most pressing issues is the need for a theology of nation-building for emergent nations in Africa, Asia, Eurasia and Latin America. As much of the Majority World emerges into the twenty-first century, many of the nations remain mired in poverty, corruption, totalitarianism, watered-down democracies, and denial of human rights and freedoms. The chapter describes that an evangelical theology of nation-building must include four specific broad lines of action outlined in this chapter. Two of the most intractable problems in nation-building in developing countries are corruption and ethnic conflict. But adequate answers to nation-building in emergent nations cannot be found by merely importing them from some alien sources, whether from the Left, in the form some version of Marxist liberation theology, or from the Right, as some middle-class American version of the prosperity gospel.
