David Gushee's new book, The Future of Faith in American Politics: the Public Witness of the Evangelical Center (whether one agrees with his conclusions or not) helps to orient the conversation about the Church and its role in the political public square. As the varied streams of Islam wrestle with their relationship with democracy and politics in the modern world, so the Church must revisit its founding documents and its moral vision. We MUST ask what it means to be the Church in the world today (and concretely what this means in the American context in 2008). We must not assume we have already asked the right questions, and arrived at the faithful answers.
Gushee is right on this point: the failures (whatever they might be) of our engagement in American politics can be largely traced to "the weak ecclesiology of evangelical Christianity."
"The ultimate source of our problem may be our misunderstanding (and malpractice) of what it means to be Christ's church" (p. 54).
Gushee is right on this point: the failures (whatever they might be) of our engagement in American politics can be largely traced to "the weak ecclesiology of evangelical Christianity."
"The ultimate source of our problem may be our misunderstanding (and malpractice) of what it means to be Christ's church" (p. 54).
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