Evangelicals on Public Policy Issues: Sustaining a Respectful Political Conversation
''Harold Heie affirms the very unfashionable notion that when Christian believers actually talk with one another, good things are possible. Amazingly, he also holds that such a hopelessly old-fashioned idea should apply to political differences. For readers who long for such old-fashioned and unfashionable respect, dialogue, listening, and learning, this book shows the way. It holds out one more almost unimaginable prospect: that Christian approaches to politics might live up to what the founder of Christianity modeled and in so doing contribute much-needed light and salt to the public square.'' --Mark A. Noll, Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History, University of Notre Dame''Harold Heie has rendered invaluable service to evangelicalism, the church, and society by providing a model for sustained and constructive discourse among people from all points on the political spectrum. Evangelicals and non-evangelicals alike will be surprised by the diversity of evangelical views, but all of us will learn and benefit from the comity exhibited in these pages.'' --Randall Balmer, Mandel Family Professor in the Arts & Sciences, Dartmouth College; author ofThe Making of Evangelicalism''Harold Heie has rendered invaluable service to evangelicalism, the church, and society by providing a model for sustained and constructive discourse among people from all points on the political spectrum. Evangelicals and non-evangelicals alike will be surprised by the diversity of evangelical views, but all of us will learn and benefit from the comity exhibited in these pages.'' --Randall Balmer, Mandel Family Professor in the Arts & Sciences, Dartmouth College; author ofThe Making of Evangelicalism