Jisoo Hong

Theology of Global Citizenship: Belonging Beyond Boundaries, God Within Boundaries Jisoo Hong

Though creating identity and belongingness under the sovereign requires an enclosure by boundaries, the very act of drawing boundaries imposes inevitable challenges. The limitations of the Westphalian system based on territorial boundaries are becoming more tangible with transnational flows threatening individual?s sense of belonging and the state?s exercise of sovereignty. Global citizenship is suggested today as a possible ?solution? transcending the arbitrarily drawn national boundaries. However, my political theological examination concludes that global citizenship is yet another translation of the human beings? old wish for belonging to, protection from, and unity under a ?god? albeit with new boundaries that differentiate us from them.