New American Standard Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible by Robert L Thomas
Christianity, Politics, and the Predicament of Evil overcomes a defining divide in contemporary Protestant political ethics created by two contrasting conceptions of politics. The first, exemplified in the work of Reinhold Niebuhr, construes politics as a matter of statecraft that utilizes the power of government to secure the greatest possible order and justice for society as a whole. The second, most prominently articulated by Stanley Hauerwas, maintains that politics concerns itself with the cultivation of virtue; consequently, it finds not the well-ordered state but the church to be the exemplar of politics. Not only illuminating the divide between politics-as-statecraft and politics-as-soulcraft but also redeveloping the conceptual space between them, this book reconceives politics within a theological framework in which the eschatological City of God, rather than the well-ordered state or the faithful church, functions as the paradigm of political life. At the same time, it simultaneously recognizes that the existence of evil, which corrupts individual wills and social structures, inhibits human beings from building the City of God in this world. Analyzing, criticizing, and drawing resources from Niebuhr and Hauerwas, as well as looking beyond to Augustine, Martin Luther King, Jr., and others, this book specifies the respective roles of soulcraft and statecraft in a political ethic capable of guiding Christians as they witness to God's eschatological intention to establish the City of God in a world currently mired in the predicament of evil.
Thomas, Robert L.: - Robert L. Thomas (Th.D., Dallas Theological Seminary) is professor of New Testament at The Master's Seminary in Sun Valley California. He is the general editor of The Jesus Crisis (with F. David Farnell), The Master's Perspective on Contemporary Issues, and The Master's Perspective on Difficult Passages.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780879811976 |
| ISBN 10 | 0879811978 |
| Title | New American Standard Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible |
| Author | Robert L Thomas |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Broadman & Holman Publishers |
| Year published | 1981-06-01 |
| Number of pages | 1695 |
| Prizes | Winner of Gold Medallion Book Awards (Reference Works) 1982 |
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