William Johnson Everett

God's Federal Republic

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Biblical religion is driven by a longing for God's ultimate order of justice and peace. Most of this longing is steeped in the patriarchal symbols of kingship, monarchs, lords, fathers, and princes. This symbolism came to bind European churches to the legitimation of monarchies and empires for over a millennium. The American and now global experiment separated the churches, with their kingdom language, from government dedicated to democratic, republican, and federal constitutional order. Religious efforts to guide and critique government have subsequently suffered from political irrelevance or theocratic nationalism. Everett lifts up the bibl… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-5326-8715-0
EAN: 9781532687150
Produktnummer: 32905071
Verlag: Wipf and Stock
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Seitenangabe: 214 S.
Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.1 cm 318 g
Abbildungen: Paperback
Gewicht: 318

Über den Autor

William Johnson Everett is the Herbert Gezork Professor of Christian Social Ethics, Emeritus, at Andover Newton Seminary at Yale Divinity School. He is the author of Religion, Federalism, and the Struggle for Public Life as well as many other books about the interface between religion and public life. He journals regularly at www.WilliamEverett.com.