The Contested Public Square: The Crisis of Christianity and Politics - Couverture souple

Forster, Greg

 
9780830828807: The Contested Public Square: The Crisis of Christianity and Politics
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 083082880X ISBN 13 : 9780830828807
Editeur : IVP Academic, 2008

Synopsis

Christian thinking about involvement in human government was not born (or born again!) with the latest elections or with the founding of the Moral Majority in 1979. The history of Christian political thinking goes back to the first decades of the church's existence under persecution. Building on biblical foundations, that thinking has developed over time.This book introduces the history of Christian political thought traced out in Western culture--a culture experiencing the dissolution of a long-fought-for consensus around natural law theory. Understanding our current crisis, where there is little agreement and often opposing views about how to maintain both religious freedom and liberal democracy, requires exploring how we got where we are. Greg Forster tells that backstory with deft discernment and clear insight. He offers this retrospective not only to inform but also to point the way beyond the current impasse in the contested public square.Illuminated by sidebars on key moments in history, major figures and questions for further consideration, this book will significantly inform Christian scholars' and students' reading and interpretation of history.

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À propos de l?auteur

Greg Forster (Ph.D., Yale University) is director of the Program in American History, Economics Religion in the Kern Family Foundation. He is the author of John Locke's Politics of Moral Consensus (Cambridge University Press) and has contributed to several scholarly journals. He is also a senior fellow at the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice.

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Éditeur
IVP Academic
Date d'édition
2008
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
083082880X
ISBN 13 
9780830828807
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
254
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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