1988 Candidate Profiles: A Look at the Leading Presidential Contenders

Skillen, James W.

Zondervan

Skillen leads the reader on a tour of the present landscape of Christianity.... This book draws the reader into the current debate by providing some basic conceptual tools, some fundamental questions, and the benefit of the author's knowledge... those who seek a Christian political perspective informed by political science will be greatly enriched. (Gregory Bezilla, Dept. of Political Science, Columbia University) The Scattered Voice is a landmark book-for breadth of analysis, clarity of interpretation, and clarity of vision. Skillen has achieved something quite rare here. He has presented his own forceful prescription for how Christians may best contribute to public life through a meticulously fair discussion of several other alternatives. This is a book of light for an often heated subject. (Mark Noll, Professor of History, Wheaton College) Skillen provides the scorecard one might need for identifying the players presenting competing "Christian" political options today. He also offers valuable critiques and suggests an alternative worth contemplating. (George M. Marsden, Professor of History, Duke University)

The Scattered Voice: Christians at Odds in the Public Square

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Prospects and Ambiguities of Globalization: Critical Assessments at a Time of Growing Turmoil

Assumptions and institutions that we have taken for granted for fifty years are proving inadequate for the world now emerging. Moreover, mono-casual explanations of rapid global change do not work. Religious as well as economic dynamics, cultural as well as political forces, environmental as well as military constraints, are frequently working at cross-purposes in shaping a globe we cannot yet fathom. The essays in this volume reach beyond the mere description of phenomena to explore deeper currents of institutional breakdown and competing cultural drives that are radically reshaping our world. Covering topics ranging from the New Silk Road to changes in school governance around the world, the authors offer a critical, historically-informed assessment of the diverse dynamics that are undermining or nullifying current paradigms of thought and action. Drawing on their diverse backgrounds in economics, international affairs, ethics, history, education, and religion, the authors share the conviction that long-standing assumptions about a state-centered, secular-tending, economically converging world are in large measure mistaken. A paradigm shift is required if we are to understand and constructively shape the twenty-first century world.

Lexington Books

With or Against the World?: America's Role Among the Nations

The events of 9/11, followed by the Bush administration's actions in Afghanistan and Iraq, have fueled a new debate about America's foreign and defense policies in the post-Cold War world. The debate has produced a torrent of books. This book argues that current policy making and reactions to terrorism cannot be understood properly without going back to the roots of America's civil-religious nationalism as well as to the Muslim roots of radical Islamism. After setting that stage in Chapters One and Two, the book goes on in the next three chapters to uncover the political and religious roots of the modern state, a western invention now dominant throughout the world. Chapters Six through Eight focus on the United States--at its founding, in the era of Woodrow Wilson and World War I, and today, post-9/11. The aim here, at the core of the book, is to show how a modest, constitutionally limited state became the carrier of a grandiose, civil-religious, nationalism (city on a hill; redeemer nation; American exceptionalism) that accounts for much of the ambivalence of America's approach to international relations to the present day. Chapter Nine focuses on contemporary questioning of just war doctrine, and Chapter Ten argues for a new priority of international institution building in America's approach to world affairs.

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Politics & Government

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

This is a collection of essays that starts with the premise that the United States inhabits a world it understands far too little and is insufficiently prepared to lead. The author, James W. Skillen, argues that world religions and cultural patterns are forces onto themselves and do not and will not change or adapt at American bidding. In short, this post-cold war era calls for a self-critical reexamination of nationalism, state sovereignty, and the demands of international justice. Published in cooperation with The Center for Public Justice.

In Pursuit of Justice: Christian-Democratic Explorations

This is a series of eight essays on diverse public policy concerns that asks the questions: What does racial justice, or environmental protection, or family policy look like when approached from a Christian-democratic perspective? And what about the civil-society questions of welfare, education, and political participation? The author, James W. Skillen, argues that the roots of a Christian-democratic approach are neither liberal nor conservative, but pluralistic, opening the way to a healthy regard for both social complexity and government's responsibility to uphold political community. Published in cooperation with the Center for Public Justice

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

This is a series of eight essays on diverse public policy concerns that asks the questions: What does racial justice, or environmental protection, or family policy look like when approached from a Christiandemocratic perspective? And what about the civilsociety questions of welfare, education, and political participation? The author, James W. Skillen, argues that the roots of a Christiandemocratic approach are neither liberal nor conservative, but pluralistic, opening the way to a healthy regard for both social complexity and government's responsibility to uphold political community.

A highly respected author and Christian thinker provides a principled, biblical perspective on engaging political culture as part of one's calling.

The Good of Politics: A Biblical, Historical, And Contemporary Introduction (Engaging Culture)

Baker Academic

A series of lectures considering how Christians should involve themselves politically as Christians

Adding Cross to Crown: The Political Significance of Christ's Passion

Noll, Mark A.

Bratt, James D.

Stackhouse, Max L.

Lugo, Luis E.

Baker Pub Group

Is there a Christ-centered response to such environmental crises as global warming, land degradation, and species extinction? In Caring for Creation, Calvin DeWitt presents a biblical approach to being a good steward of the earth.

Caring for Creation: Responsible Stewardship of God's Handiwork

Dewitt, Calvin B.

Baer, Richard A., Jr.

Derr, Thomas Sieger

Ehlers, Vernon J.

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1988 Candidate Profiles: A Look at the Leading Presidential Contenders

The Scattered Voice: Christians at Odds in the Public Square

Prospects and Ambiguities of Globalization: Critical Assessments at a Time of Growing Turmoil

With or Against the World?: America's Role Among the Nations

With or Against the World?: America's Role Among the Nations

In Pursuit of Justice: Christian-Democratic Explorations

In Pursuit of Justice: Christian-Democratic Explorations

The Good of Politics: A Biblical, Historical, And Contemporary Introduction (Engaging Culture)

Adding Cross to Crown: The Political Significance of Christ's Passion

Caring for Creation: Responsible Stewardship of God's Handiwork