What Are Christians For?
Life Together at the End of the World
by Jake Meador
Pub Date 22 Feb 2022
InterVarsity Press, IVP
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Christian | Nonfiction (Adult) | Religion & Spirituality
I am reviewing a copy of What Are Christians For through InterVarsity Press and Netgalley:
In What Are Christians For, it is asked What a Christian political witness look like in our day? It is pointed out that politics should be defined by by fidelity to the common good of all the members of society. But our modern Western politics are defined by a determination to bend the natural world and human life to its own political and economic ends. The Wholesale rejection of the natural order is behind the dominant revolutions in our history, and defines our experience in Western society today—our racialized hierarchy, modern industry, and the sexual revolution. In What Are Christians For?
In this book Jake Meador lays out a proposal for a Christian politics rooted in the givenness and goodness of the created world. He is uninterested in the cultural wars that have so often characterized American Christianity. Instead he casts a vision for an ordered society that rejects the late modern revolution at every turn and is rooted in the natural law tradition and the great Protestant confessions. Here is a political approach that is antiracist, anticapitalist, and profoundly pro-life. A truly Christian political witness, Meador argues, must attend closely to the natural world and renounce the metallic fantasies that have poisoned common life in America life for too long.
I give What Are Christians For five out of five stars!
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