God and Governing: Reflections on Ethics, Virtue and Statesmanship
Abortion. Poverty. Pornography. More than thirty years ago religious conservatives and liberals began fighting these and other problems head on. These past few decades have seen the popularity of groups such as the Moral Majority and The Christian Coalition that support numerous religious politicians and make even more promises. After all the potential for success, why is it that these social problems persist? How is it that evangelicals have been so ineffective at changing the political and social landscape of the United States in a positive way?
Based on a conference put together by Trinity Law School, God and Governing brings together theologians, politicians, law professors and cultural critics in order to examine some of the root causes of evangelical political failure over the past thirty years.
Contents:
Foreword: Charles Colson
Introduction: Roger N. Overton
Chapter One: Why Being Good is So Political by David F. Wells
Chapter Two: The Travails of Evangelical Politics by Paul Marshall
Chapter Three: The Golden Triangle of Freedom by Os Guinness
Chapter Four Lessons on Fleeing Temptation by Patrick Nolan
Chapter Five: The Future of Virtue
and Statesmanship in Pagan
Chapter Six: The Failure of
Evangelical Political Involvement by
Chapter Seven:
Chapter Eight: A Trinitarian Model for Political Duty by Stephen Kennedy
God and Governing will be published by Wipf and Stock under their Pickwick Publications imprint as part of their Princeton Theological Monograph Series. Look for it around the end of 2009.
