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This essay examines the deep contradictions of America’s moral landscape through the figures of returning US war veterans. It presses for a Christian theological response to the deployments and redeployments of veterans, noting how the operations of the state cause certain bodies to disappear and reappear. Calling for a theological intervention, it presents the vision of a God who remembers, even as the mechanisms of society plunge citizens into historical amnesia.
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Jennings, W.J. (2016). War Bodies: Remembering Bodies in a Time of War. In: Arel, S., Rambo, S. (eds) Post-Traumatic Public Theology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40660-2_2
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