Just politics : a guide for Christian engagement / Ronald J. Sider.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: Grand Rapids, MI : Brazos Press, �2012.Edition: [2nd ed.]Description: xvii, 249 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781587433269 (pbk.)
  • 1587433265 (pbk.)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BR 115 .P7 S5155 2012
Contents:
Tragic failure, new opportunity -- Developing a faithful methodology -- Politics and the biblical story -- The state: its nature, purpose, and limits -- Justice -- Human rights, democracy, and capitalism -- The sanctity of human life -- Marriage and family -- Religious freedom, church, and state -- Peacemaking, just war, and nonviolence -- Creation care -- Nation-states and international affairs -- Biblical balance, historic opportunity.
"Evangelicals today probably have more political influence in the United States than at any time in the last century--but they might not be certain what to do with it. It has been difficult to develop a unified voice on pressing issues such as social justice and moral renewal. Bestselling author and theologian Ron Sider offers a biblically grounded, factually rooted, Christian approach to politics that cuts across ideological divides. Shaped by a careful study of society, this book will guide readers into more thoughtful and effective political activity. Practical, balanced, and nonpartisan, this book will be a welcome resource during the 2012 presidential race. It is a revised version of what was previously published as The Scandal of Evangelical Politics and includes a new introduction and revisions throughout"--Publisher description.
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Revised edition of: The scandal of evangelical politics.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-236) and indexes.

Tragic failure, new opportunity -- Developing a faithful methodology -- Politics and the biblical story -- The state: its nature, purpose, and limits -- Justice -- Human rights, democracy, and capitalism -- The sanctity of human life -- Marriage and family -- Religious freedom, church, and state -- Peacemaking, just war, and nonviolence -- Creation care -- Nation-states and international affairs -- Biblical balance, historic opportunity.

"Evangelicals today probably have more political influence in the United States than at any time in the last century--but they might not be certain what to do with it. It has been difficult to develop a unified voice on pressing issues such as social justice and moral renewal. Bestselling author and theologian Ron Sider offers a biblically grounded, factually rooted, Christian approach to politics that cuts across ideological divides. Shaped by a careful study of society, this book will guide readers into more thoughtful and effective political activity. Practical, balanced, and nonpartisan, this book will be a welcome resource during the 2012 presidential race. It is a revised version of what was previously published as The Scandal of Evangelical Politics and includes a new introduction and revisions throughout"--Publisher description.

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