“Possibilities for bringing justice and mercy, genuine freedom and prosperity, to the whole world. Empires always carry that possibility. But, alas, empires always also, for the same reason, face the temptation to use their power for their own prestige and wealth, and it doesn’t take a Ph D in macroeconomics or political theory to see that this has been massively the case in the rise of the present global empire – an empire in which, of course, we share to quite an extent. The challenge now, and one of the central answers to ‘where is God in the War on Terror’, is this: to provide a critique of American empire” – NT Wright