Warriors as Exemplars of Faith
August 23, 2019 Juicy Ecumenism
Following on the debates about “Liberalism,” (see my “Robert Kagan and the Many Meanings of Liberalism” above), I also published “The Disjunction of Liberal Theory and Liberal Polities,” stating that “the confounding of contentious liberal theories with actual concrete polities stems from the assumption that liberal democratic states are somehow the product of liberal theories.”
In this article, I want to address how Westerners, especially Americans, including Christians, are currently addressing politics. The level of discourse is now quite abysmal (much worse than even two decades ago). One major problem for many is that politics is reduced to a simplistic binary—liberal/non liberal—while Christians often lack any theory of the task of government.
On why it is commonly wrong to say that something is political (or social, or economic) not religious.
The book is for the 100th anniversary of the Maluku church.
Seeks to show how religion is nearly always intertwined with politics.
Critique of common evangelical approaches to politics.
Critique of common evangelical approaches to politics.
