God's Politician
Title | God's Politician PDF eBook |
Author | Garth Lean |
Publisher | Darton Longman and Todd |
Pages | 180 |
Release | 2007-01-01 |
Genre | Abolitionists |
ISBN | 9780232526905 |
A faith that changed history: this is the story of William Wilberforce's struggle to abolish the Slave Trade and reform the morals of Great Britain. In God's Politician, Garth Lean provides an insightful and stirring account of how Wilberforce and his colleagues in the Clapham circle put their faith into action and changed the course of history. Their legacy was one of far-reaching moral renewal as well as testimony to the power of the individual to effect change in his world. Foreword by Charles W. Colson
God's Politics
Title | God's Politics PDF eBook |
Author | Jim Wallis |
Publisher | Zondervan |
Pages | 414 |
Release | 2006-08-29 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0060834471 |
New York Times bestseller God's Politics struck a chord with Americans disenchanted with how the Right had co-opted all talk about integrating religious values into our politics, and with the Left, who were mute on the subject. Jim Wallis argues that America's separation of church and state does not require banishing moral and religious values from the public square. God's Politics offers a vision for how to convert spiritual values into real social change and has started a grassroots movement to hold our political leaders accountable by incorporating our deepest convictions about war, poverty, racism, abortion, capital punishment, and other moral issues into our nation's public life. Who can change the political wind? Only we can.
God and Politics in Esther
Title | God and Politics in Esther PDF eBook |
Author | Yoram Hazony |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 283 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107132053 |
This book explores the political crisis that erupts when the Persian government falls to fanatics and a Jewish insider goes rogue.
In God's Shadow
Title | In God's Shadow PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Walzer |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 271 |
Release | 2012-06-05 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0300182511 |
In this eagerly awaited book, political theorist Michael Walzer reports his findings after decades of reading and thinking about the politics of the Hebrew Bible. Attentive to nuance while engagingly straightforward, Walzer examines the commentary of the ancient biblical writers and discusses the implications for such urgent modern topics as the nature of political society, hierarchy and justice, the use of political power, the justification for and rules of warfare, and the responsibilities of clerical figures, monarchs, and their subjects./divDIV DIVBecause there are many biblical writers, and because they represent different political views, pluralism is a central feature of biblical politics, Walzer observes. Yet pluralism is never explicitly defended in the Bible—indeed it couldn't be defended since God's word is one. There is, however, an anti-political teaching which recurs in biblical texts: if you have faith in God, you have no need for particular political institutions or prudent political leaders or deliberative assemblies or loyal citizens. And, Walzer finds a strong moral teaching common to the Bible's authors. He identifies God's decree for ethics and investigates its implications for just policymaking in our own times./div
Under God
Title | Under God PDF eBook |
Author | Garry Wills |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 451 |
Release | 2007-09-25 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 141654335X |
One of our most distinguished political commentators--author of Reagan's America--offers a rich, original look at why religion and politics will never be separate in the United States.
God’s Law and Order
Title | God’s Law and Order PDF eBook |
Author | Aaron Griffith |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 346 |
Release | 2020-11-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0674238788 |
An incisive look at how evangelical Christians shaped—and were shaped by—the American criminal justice system. America incarcerates on a massive scale. Despite recent reforms, the United States locks up large numbers of people—disproportionately poor and nonwhite—for long periods and offers little opportunity for restoration. Aaron Griffith reveals a key component in the origins of American mass incarceration: evangelical Christianity. Evangelicals in the postwar era made crime concern a major religious issue and found new platforms for shaping public life through punitive politics. Religious leaders like Billy Graham and David Wilkerson mobilized fears of lawbreaking and concern for offenders to sharpen appeals for Christian conversion, setting the stage for evangelicals who began advocating tough-on-crime politics in the 1960s. Building on religious campaigns for public safety earlier in the twentieth century, some preachers and politicians pushed for “law and order,” urging support for harsh sentences and expanded policing. Other evangelicals saw crime as a missionary opportunity, launching innovative ministries that reshaped the practice of religion in prisons. From the 1980s on, evangelicals were instrumental in popularizing criminal justice reform, making it a central cause in the compassionate conservative movement. At every stage in their work, evangelicals framed their efforts as colorblind, which only masked racial inequality in incarceration and delayed real change. Today evangelicals play an ambiguous role in reform, pressing for reduced imprisonment while backing law-and-order politicians. God’s Law and Order shows that we cannot understand the criminal justice system without accounting for evangelicalism’s impact on its historical development.
God's Bullies
Title | God's Bullies PDF eBook |
Author | Perry Deane Young |
Publisher | Holt McDougal |
Pages | 376 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN |
Considerable discussion of homosexuality. Author also co-wrote The David Kopay Story.--P. Thorslev.