Public Faith in Action by Miroslav Volf

Public Faith in Action by Miroslav Volf

A Best Book of 2016 in Religion, Publishers Weekly

Mixing faith and politics can be tricky, but [the authors] have assembled a helpful, concisely written guide. . . . A must-read.
--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

A concise, readable, theologically informed guide for Christian political engagement, this book deftly integrates relevant biblical principles and contemporary data, summarizes the key issues at stake, and points to important additional reading. An excellent contribution to the rapidly growing body of work on how Christians can engage politics in a faithful way.
--Ron Sider, president emeritus, Evangelicals for Social Action

The question isn't whether you'll live out a public faith but how. In this wise, measured, and refreshingly concrete discussion, Volf and McAnnally-Linz encourage Christians to be active, thoughtful contributors to the 'life together' that is society. The book is unapologetically convicted, but it makes room for the global realities that demand different responses and creates space for Christians to come to different prudential conclusions. Here is an antidote to polarization.
--James K. A. Smith, Calvin College; author of You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit; editor of Comment magazine

This volume achieves its aims: opening up a series of serious questions that are a matter of public debate in a pluralistic society, while exhorting Christians to responsibly explore the answers through the lens of faith.
--Stephanie Summers, CEO, Center for Public Justice

Public Faith in Action provides a deeply thoughtful model for how we as Christians might work out our faith for the glory of God and the flourishing of communities and people. One needn't agree with every application here in order to be instructed, challenged, and inspired by this call to commitment, conviction, and character as we strive to serve a suffering world faithfully and well.
--Karen Swallow Prior, author of Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More--Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist

Miroslav Volf (DrTheol, University of Tubingen) is the Henry B. Wright Professor of Systematic Theology at Yale Divinity School and director of the Yale Center for Faith and Culture in New Haven, Connecticut. He has written more than fifteen books, including Exclusion and Embrace (selected among the 100 best religious books of the twentieth century by Christianity Today), After Our Likeness, and The End of Memory.

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ISBN 13	9781587433849
ISBN 10	1587433842
Title	Public Faith in Action
Author	Miroslav Volf
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Publisher	Baker Publishing Group
Year published	2016-06-21
Number of pages	240
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