City of Man: Religion and Politics in a New Era
Michael Gerson and Peter Wehner offer a brief conversation on the necessity of public engagement by faithful Christians in contemporary America. The authors observe that political theology, a shorthand description for how people of faith view politics, has profound public consequences. Contrasting t...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2011
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A journal of church and state
Year: 2011, Volume: 53, Issue: 1, Pages: 128-130 |
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| Summary: | Michael Gerson and Peter Wehner offer a brief conversation on the necessity of public engagement by faithful Christians in contemporary America. The authors observe that political theology, a shorthand description for how people of faith view politics, has profound public consequences. Contrasting the responses of Germany's Christians during the 1930s with the efforts of African-American churches as reinforced by allies in mainline Christian denominations, they draw a distinction between the corrupt political theology that encouraged German Christians to accommodate themselves quickly to the rising Nazi ideology and the conscience rooted theology of mainline Christians who worked to end racial subordination in the South. |
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| ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/csr020 |