T. M. Moore, Culture Matters: A Call For Consensus on Christian Cultural Engagement. Baker Academic and Brazos Press, 2007. Referenced in: Christian Political Theory and Church-State Relations LifeandLeadership.com Summary This is a meaty, academic work. On one level, it is a neo-Calvinist, Kuyperian revisit of the classic by Niebuhr, Christ and Culture (1951), but not
J. Budziszewski, Evangelicals in the Public Square: Four Formative Voices on Political Thought and Action. Baker, 2006. Referenced in: Christian Political Theory and Church-State Relations LifeandLeadership.com Summary This volume makes a unique contribution by summarizing and evaluating four dominant schools of thought in the mid-to-late-twentieth and twenty-first centuries on the role of the church in
D. A. Carson, Christ and Culture Revisited. Eerdmans, 2008. Referenced in: Christian Political Theory and Church-State Relations LifeandLeadership.com Summary This is a D. A. Carson’s revisit of classic by H. Richard Niebuhr, Christ and Culture (1951). It is one of at least three volumes that revive and reassess Niebuhr, including Craig Carter’s Rethinking Christ and
Craig A. Carter, Rethinking Christ and Culture: A Post-Christendom Perspective. Brazos Press, 2007. Referenced in: Christian Political Theory and Church-State Relations LifeandLeadership.com Summary This is a Carter’s reconsideration of the classic by H. Richard Niebuhr, Christ and Culture (1951). He reinterprets Niebuhr through an Anabaptist lens. For an introductory summary and assessment of this viewpoint,
H. Richard Niebuhr, Christ and Culture. Harper and Row, 1956. Referenced in: Christian Political Theory and Church-State Relations LifeandLeadership.com Summary This is expression of how Christians engage culture has been the standard for over half a century. Below is a summary of the Niebuhr’s five typologies of how churches engage the larger culture: Christ against
P. C. Kemeny, Clarke E. Cochran, Derek H. Davis, Ronald J. Sider, and Corwin Smidt, Church, State, and Public Justice: Five Views. IVP Academic, 2007. Referenced in: Christian Political Theory, Church and State Relations LifeandLeadership.com Summary The value of this book is the objectivity of five scholar-practitioners as they stand back from the fray and
Peter Scott and William T. Cavanaugh, The Blackwell Companion to Political Theology (Blackwell Companions to Religion). Wiley-Blackwell, 2006. Refernced in: Christian Political Theory and Church-State Relations LifeandLeadership.com Summary For many in the missional and emergent conversations today, the relationship of Christianity and politics is a given. This perspective is not shared by all. For those
David. P. Koyzis, Political Visions and Illusions: A Survey and Christian Critique of Contemporary Ideologies. IVP Academic, 2003. Referenced in: Christian Political Theory, Church and State Relations LifeandLeadership.com Summary For those active in ministries of social justice and compassion, the relationship of Christianity and politics is a given. Not all agree with this. For those
Francis J. Beckwith, Politics for Christians, Statecraft as Soulcraft (Christian Worldview Integration Series). IVP Academic, 2010. Referenced in: Christian Political Theory, Church and State Relations LifeandLeadership.com Summary Much of the missional and emergent conversations today emphasize the relationship of Christianity and politics. Not all agree with this emphasis. For those who arise from a tradition
David Fitch, The End of Evangelicalism? Discerning a New Faithfulness for Mission: Towards an Evangelical Political Theology. Cascade Books, 2011. Referenced in: Christian Political Theory, Church and State Relations LifeandLeadership.com Summary Since a major tenet of evangelicalism is the formation and maintenance of a Christian nation, it is by its own admission a form of
