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Paperback The Political Meaning of Christianity: The Prophetic Stance: An Interpretation Book

ISBN: 0062508938

ISBN13: 9780062508935

The Political Meaning of Christianity: An Interpretation

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The Political Meaning of Christianity brings to light various important issues of contemporary concern within the public and considers, with a fresh perspective, several issues in political theory. This description may be from another edition of this product.

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Political Meaning of Christianity

Over the years I've frequently used Glenn Tinder's Political Thinking in my Social and Political Philosophy classes. Though evident to a discerning reader of that work, the somewhat muted Christian convictions of this MIT political science professor peal like church bells in The Political Meaning of Christianity: an Introduction (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, c. 1989). Tinder makes "a personal statement,"...

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A most astute book on Christianity and politics.

Glenn Tinder's The Political Meaning of Christianity is what Reinhold Niebuhr might have written fifty years after The Nature and Destiny of Man (sic). Tinder gives us an astute analyis of the human condition, individually and socially, exalted through the destiny God gives us, and fallen through the exaltation we give ourselves. His chapters on "prophetic hope" as it works for social transformation and spirituality...

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The importance of the Christian worldview to politics

Glen Tinder is probably best known for his seminal Atlantic article"Can We be Good Without God?". The Political Meaning of Christianityexplores many of these same ideas in greater detail, examining, for example, the importance of Love in the political system (a novel idea.) I strongly recommend this book for both Christians and non-Christians wrestling with the importance of the transcendant in our political system. Kris...

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