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Nimi Wariboko

Nimi Wariboko is Walter G. Muelder Professor of Social Ethics at Boston University. His many books include The Split God: Pentecostalism and Critical Theory (SUNY Press, 2018); Economics in Spirit and Truth: A Moral Philosophy of Finance (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014); and his most recent, The Split Economy: Saint Paul Goes to Wall Street (SUNY Press, 2020).

Essays

Between Evangelicals and Trump: Redemption Through Sin

Trump supporters will not abandon him in the 2020 presidential election. They believe they are doing the will of God, and the theology that God uses sinners to accomplish His purpose now means divine purpose will be fulfilled through the president’s sins.

Whose Face is on the Coin? The Split Economy and Political Theology

I have argued that economic theology should lead to political praxis and change. Economic theology has to open a space for emancipatory politics that resists the capitalist future.