Dr. Werntz has argued that the question ‘can Christians be nationalists?’ is largely without meaning, at present at least, because it cannot be answered using the terms given in the debate so far.
Our global, neo-liberal order has unmade nations through the establishment of invisible (and highly exploitative) relationships between states, such that we somehow have lost both the ability to be self-consciously the member of a nation and the sense of owing something to members of other nations. We belong to states and states are, at this point, more market-states than nation-states. Both our own citizenship and the citizenship of our peers in other nations are relativized by the claims of the global market. So far as his assessment of the problem goes, I think Werntz is correct.
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