Victor V. Claar and Robin J. Klay, Economics in Christian Perspective: Theory, Policy, and Life Choices. InterVarsity Press, 2007. Referenced in: Christian Perspectives on Economics and Public Policy LifeandLeadership.com Summary This is a weighty, academic work adequate for use as a text in an introductory college-level course in microeconomics. Many church leaders may lack adequate
Ronald Nash, Social Justice and the Christian Church. CSS Publishing, 2002. Referenced in: Christian Perspectives on Economics and Public Policy LifeandLeadership.com Summary The late Ronald Nash (d. 2006) first wrote this book in 1983 while a professor of philosophy and religion at Western Kentucky University. Since then it has been through several printings. Nash effectively
Jay W. Richards, Money, Greed, and God: Why Capitalism is the Solution and not the Problem. HarperOne, 2010. Referenced in: Christian Perspectives on Economics and Public Policy LifeandLeadership.com Summary Richards is one of a group of authors such as Scott Rae, Ronald Nash, Michael Novak, Marvin Olasky, and others who possess a strong social conscience
Scott Rae and Austin Hill, The Virtues of Capitalism: A Moral Case for Free Markets. Northfield Publishing, 2010. Referenced in: Christian Perspectives on Economics and Public Policy LifeandLeadership.com Summary Engagement in social ministries often thrusts one into matters of economics and public policy, and it is often difficult to find a good balance. For the
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
