Series: A Model for Christian Political Engagement

For nearly 2,000 years, the church has wrestled with the question of how it should relate to the political powers of this world.  This is an enormously complex and difficult issue, and Christians have given a wide variety of answers to this question through the centuries.  At the risk of oversimplification, I propose that Christian … Read more

In the first part of this series, I described and assessed four different models for how the church should relate to the political powers of this world: Christendom, Pietism, Dual Citizenship, and Natural Law.  In this second part, I advocate an alternative model that bears some similarities to the Pietism and Natural Law models, while … Read more