Recent events suggest that “democracy” not only functions as a “God-term” in global discourse but carries with it theological assumptions about God's relation to human freedom and history. This essay investigates the theological origins and implications of Anglo-American democratic theory, drawing attention to the instability of the U.S. Christian-republican synthesis.

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