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  • Paperback: 240 pages
  • Publisher: IVP Academic (March 28, 2014)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0830840516
  • ISBN-13: 978-0830840519
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5.0 out of 5 starsWow.
By Joel L. Watts VINE VOICE on May 7, 2014
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With the plethora of Christians involved in politics at various levels, with the amount of conversations currently ongoing on social media about the level of political involvement by the Christian, and with the constant need to speak to how we as Christians should be involved, I am convinced we need more dialogue, more conservations amongst ourselves, and angles to examine. In Christian Political Witness, George Kalantzis and Gregory W. Lee assemble a who's who list of authors and essayists who have, from time to time, tackled many of the issues plaguing this conversation.

The issue of Christians and politics is as varied as the people talking. It may begin with "Should we become involved?" but given the long history of Christendom, it doesn't end there. Rather, there are issues of what involvement looks like, of what past involvement has done both to society and to the Church as a whole, and even how to define violence. Perhaps this is why we need a book of various essays by various authors based on a mutli-day conference at one of American Evangelicalism premier schools.

Beginning with Stanley Hauerwas, we are introduced to just how much...patience, skill, and nuance is needed to converse about such an important topic. Hauerwas, as he is apt to do, rails about Enlightenment religious capitalism, or the privatization of religion from the public sphere. Here, I struggle immensely. I am an American, born in the Deep South, raised to believe in American Exceptionalism and public prayer, and yet a convert to political liberalism and a firm believer in the separation of Church and State. Hauerwas challenges us to use Barth and to explore the grounding of God in humanity through the Incarnation.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsBold Call for the Church to be Herself once more
By Johnny Walker on June 2, 2014
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Church matters. If there is a thread unifying this fairly eclectic collection of essays, it's that. While hopes of a "Christian nation" may still govern much of evangelical political thought, such aspirations are cheerfully absent in this volume. The contributors are quite aware that the nature of our post-Constantinian (post-Christian?) society expels any such dreams. Indeed, such dreams are incongruent with the Gospel of Christ. As such, the object of their political theology is not the State, but the Church. This simple move is actually quite radical. By merely reorienting the conversation around the ekklesia, rather than Caesar's polis, any aim for Christianity as some sort of domesticated, docile "civil religion" is out-rightly rejected. The Church will not become a pet to the State.

As Stanley Hauerwas (whose influence is salient throughout the book) recounts in his inaugural essay, "the modern state could not risk having a church capable of challenging its political authority" (19), thus, the resulting "relegation of religion to the sphere of private inwardness and individual motivation" (18). But as all the contributors would agree, true discipleship rails against a Christianity of the individual - a Christianity that is merely a "belief system". The Church, as the gathering of God's people, is necessarily public and thus, political. She cannot be otherwise.

And the Church's politic is not a politic of this world. It is a politic of the future - of the age to come. She embodies the Reign of Christ now, in the midst of the reign of Caesar. She manifests the City of God here, while still in the City of Man. She is, as in the Anabaptist scheme, an alternative community representing a different ethic and a different logic.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsA very solid work
By Dr. Malachi Constant on February 11, 2015
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This is an edited book. As such the various chapters have different points of view and come from a variety of Christian backgrounds and traditions. This is both the book's strength and weakness because while it reveals the breadth of thinking on the topic the change of voice and vocabulary from chapter to chapter can be disconcerting.

This is not so much a "How to" book as a "History of and the successes and failings of" book

This is also a scholarly book that will probably not appeal to the casual reader
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4.0 out of 5 starsAn Anabaptist, a Presbyterian, and an Anglican walk into a bar…
By Tim Hoiland on January 13, 2015
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An Anabaptist, a Presbyterian, and an Anglican walk into a bar…

Okay, wait, let’s start over. Every year, Wheaton College hosts a theology conference. This year, it was on Pentecostalism and the Holy Spirit, and in 2015 it will be on “The Image of God in an Image Driven Age.”

As I noted last year, while armchair theologians like me might not be able to justify making the evangelical hajj to Wheaton for the annual event, InterVarsity Press does its part to loop us in by publishing a compilation volume each year comprised of essays that began as presentations at the conference.

The most recent volume is Christian Political Witness, drawn from the 2013 conference. While packed with heavy-hitters, this compilation is remarkably accessible and engaging, even for the laymen and -women among us. And while the contributors span the theological—and yes, political—spectrum, I found that the project nonetheless hangs together fairly cohesively.

Presumably in keeping with the conference, the book is framed by a litany of big questions:

What might a distinctively Christian witness mean in an increasingly polarized climate where the immensity of the challenges governments face seems matched only by the partisanship of the political system? What is the proper Christian response to unending wars, burgeoning debt, disregard for civil liberties, attacks on the sanctity of life, and economic injustice, not to mention ongoing challenges to traditional understandings of sexuality and marriage? Are Christians anything more than an interest group, open to manipulation by those who most enticingly promise to preserve a certain way of life?Read more ›
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