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Resurrecting the Idea of a Christian Society Hardcover – August 1, 2016

by R. R. Reno (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Regnery Faith (August 1, 2016)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1621573494
  • ISBN-13: 978-1621573494
  • Product Dimensions: 5.9 x 1 x 9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
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5.0 out of 5 starsA society informed by the values of justice, mercy and protecting the weak
By Glynn Young VINE VOICE on August 8, 2016
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Perhaps the first thing one should note about “R.R. Reno’s Resurrecting the Idea of a Christian Society” is that he’s not calling for a return to some imagined Christian government for the United States. The title might lead some to believe that, given it’s a presidential election, year, and given that it’s this presidential election, with people talking of whom they’re voting against rather than whom they’re voting for.

No, Reno, editor of First Things Magazine, isn’t writing about a Christian government. He’s writing about the idea of a society informed by the values of justice, mercy, and protection of the weak, as opposed to what the United States has become – a society informed by social Darwinism; a political, cultural, and economic elite that makes the rules for everyone except itself; and a culture of nonjudgmentalism that permeates our education system. Among other things. Among a lot of other things.

Reno completed this book before the political primary system got fully underway. And so it’s surprising to see just how well he anticipated, without once mentioning their names, the rise of the anti-elitists in both major parties – Bernie Sanders in the Democratic Party and Donald Trump in the Republican Party. He has much to say about America’s elites – corporate elites, political, elites, cultural elites – and none of it is good.

“Visit the poorest neighborhoods of a major American city or an impoverished rural town and you’ll quickly discover a misery more profound and pervasive than simple material want,” he says. “Drugs, crime, sexual exploitation, divorce, fatherlessness, streams of expletives, pornography, violent images – they are everywhere.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsProgressive Political Righteousness vs. the Common Good
By Ron Chandonia on August 7, 2016
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A thoughtful and non-polemical analysis of the baneful influence of America's secular progressive ethos on the welfare of those left behind by the new globalism, especially working-class white Americans. In some ways reminiscent of Myron Magnet's discussion of the black underclass in "The Dream and the Nightmare," it benefits greatly from Reno's Christian perspective on the social disorientation of people on the wrong side of America's widening class divide. That makes Reno's book especially effective at skewering the intolerance of our politically correct elites, for whom the triumph of liberal politics outweighs the common good: "The command to love your enemies promotes unity more effectively than the haughty conviction that you're on the right side of history."
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