The Two Cities: A History of Christian Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Two Cities: A History of Christian Politics write by Andrew Willard Jones. This book was released on 2021-06-24. The Two Cities: A History of Christian Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The prevailing narrative of human history, given to us as children and reinforced constantly through our culture, is the plot of progress. As the narrative goes, we progressed from tyranny to freedom, from superstition to science, from poverty to wealth, from darkness to enlightenment. This is modernity’s origin myth. Out of it, a consensus has emerged: part of human progress is the overcoming of religion, in particular Christianity, and that the world itself is fundamentally secular. In The Two Cities: A History of Christian Politics, Andrew Willard Jones rewrites the political history of the West with a new plot, a plot in which Christianity is true, in which human history is Church history. The Two Cities moves through the rise and fall of empires; cycles of corruption and reform; the rise and fall of Christendom; the emergence of new political forms, such as the modern state, and new political ideologies, such as liberalism and socialism; through the horrible destruction of modern warfare; and on to the plight of contemporary Christians. These movements of history are all considered in light of their orientation toward or away from God. The Two Cities advances a theory of Christian politics that is both an explanation of secular politics and a proposal for Christians seeking to navigate today’s most urgent political questions.
Before Church and State: A Study of Social Order in the Sacramental Kingdom of St. Louis IX
Before Church and State: A Study of Social Order in the Sacramental Kingdom of St. Louis IX - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Before Church and State: A Study of Social Order in the Sacramental Kingdom of St. Louis IX write by Andrew Willard Jones. This book was released on 2017-05-01. Before Church and State: A Study of Social Order in the Sacramental Kingdom of St. Louis IX available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Tales of Two Cities
Tales of Two Cities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tales of Two Cities write by Stephen Clark. This book was released on 2005. Tales of Two Cities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Christianity and Politics
Christianity and Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Christianity and Politics write by C. C. Pecknold. This book was released on 2010-08-06. Christianity and Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. It is not simply for rhetorical flourish that politicians so regularly invoke God's blessings on the country. It is because the relatively new form of power we call the nation-state arose out of a Western political imagination steeped in Christianity. In this brief guide to the history of Christianity and politics, Pecknold shows how early Christianity reshaped the Western political imagination with its new theological claims about eschatological time, participation, and communion with God and neighbor. The ancient view of the Church as the "mystical body of Christ" is singled out in particular as the author traces shifts in its use and meaning throughout the early, medieval, and modern periods-shifts in how we understand the nature of the person, community and the moral conscience that would give birth to a new relationship between Christianity and politics. While we have many accounts of this narrative from either political or ecclesiastical history, we have few that avoid the artificial separation of the two. This book fills that gap and presents a readable, concise, and thought-provoking introduction to what is at stake in the contentious relationship between Christianity and politics.
Pagans and Christians in the City
Pagans and Christians in the City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pagans and Christians in the City write by Steven D. Smith. This book was released on 2018-11-15. Pagans and Christians in the City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Traditionalist Christians who oppose same-sex marriage and other cultural developments in the United States wonder why they are being forced to bracket their beliefs in order to participate in public life. This situation is not new, says Steven D. Smith: Christians two thousand years ago faced very similar challenges. Picking up poet T. S. Eliot’s World War II–era thesis that the future of the West would be determined by a contest between Christianity and “modern paganism,” Smith argues in this book that today’s culture wars can be seen as a reprise of the basic antagonism that pitted pagans against Christians in the Roman Empire. Smith’s Pagans and Christians in the City looks at that historical conflict and explores how the same competing ideas continue to clash today. All of us, Smith shows, have much to learn by observing how patterns from ancient history are reemerging in today’s most controversial issues.
