Domesticated glory
Subtitle: how the politics of America has tamed God
By: Gale Heide
Publisher: Pickwick Publications
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Eugene, Ore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 161
ISBN-13: 9781606085370
Subjects: Evangelicalism; Christianity and politics; Religion and politics
Other titles: How American politics has tamed God
Description: "Domesticated glory critically examines the marriage between Evangelicalism and American politics. The study begins by engaging popular political pundits who wish top transform Christianity into an arm of the state. It then moves to examine some of the theological foundations proposed as support for the church's propping up of American political ideology. Finally, the study provides a more robust politics of the church by outlining how the church might act as a politics in itself. Thus the church may gain a political voice as church in such a way as to make the world know it stands in need of redemption. This is a far cry from the liberal attempt of the Social Gospel and many other evangelicals to transform the world into a pseudo-church by cultural and social control. Unlike attemps to engage culture on its own terms in the political arena or to escape politics by avoiding any public testimony to the Gospel, this study lays out a way for the church to act as church in the public square, witnessing to a Gospel concerned primarily about the universe's King and His future Kingdom."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: The deceptive allure of home; title: Finding Constantine : evangelicals in the politics of postmodernism; title: Faithful in little ... : the primacy of person in bblical truth; title: If these become silent, the rocks will cry out : the public nature of God's glory; title: The earth is my footstool : the universal politics of God's honor!; title: The performance of a lifetime : the politics of dying well.