William T. Cavanaugh, Jeffrey W. Bailey, and Craig Hovey, Editors, An Eerdmans Reader in Contemporary Political Theology. Eerdmans, 2011. Referenced in: Christian Perspectives on Politics and Church-State LifeandLeadership.com Summary For many in the missional and emergent conversations today, the relationship of Christianity and politics is a major concern. This perspective is not shared by all.
Charles E. Gutenson, Christians and the Common Good: How Faith Intersects with Public Life. Brazos Press, 2010. Referenced in: Perspectives on Political Theory and Church-State Relations LifeandLeadership.com Summary The aim of this book is to elevate God’s kingdom vision for justice and the common good of his creation, and let this guide Christians on issues
Tony Campolo, Red Letter Christians: A Citizen’s Guide to Faith and Politics. Regal Books, 2008. Referenced in: Tony Campolo on Social Ministry Theological and Philosophical Foundations of Social Ministry Christian Perspectives on Economics and Public Policy LifeandLeadership.com Summary This is Campolo’s attempt to lead evangelicals to the direct teachings of Jesus for insight into issues
Ronald J. Sider and Dianne Knippers, Editors, Toward an Evangelical Public Policy: Political Strategies for the Health of the Nation. Baker Books, 2005. Referenced in: Ron Sider on Social Ministry Christian Perspectives on Economics and Public Policy LifeandLeadership.com Summary This book appeared three years before the publication of The Scandal of Evangelical Politics, where Sider
Ronald J. Sider, The Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience: Why Christians Are Living Just Like the Rest of the World. Baker Books, 2005. Companion volumes: Sider, Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger Sider, Just Politics Referenced in: Ron Sider on Social Ministry Theological and Sociological Foundations of Social Ministry LifeandLeadership.com Summary Sider’s contention is
Ron Sider on Social Ministry Referenced in: Christian Perspectives on Economics and Public Policy / Theological and Philosophical Foundations of Social Ministry Introduction Ron Sider is a leading author and scholar-practitioner among evangelicals in the area of Christian social ministries. He is Professor of Theology, Holistic Ministry & Public Policy at Palmer Seminary of Eastern
Charles Colson, Nancy Pearsey, and Harold Fickett, How Now Shall We Live? Tyndale House, 2004. Companion volume: Pearsey, Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from its Cultural Captivity (Crossway, 2008). Referenced in: Theological and Philosophical Foundations of Social Ministry LifeandLeadership.com Summary This highly acclaimed and voluminous work addresses the larger issues of communicating a Christian worldview and
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
