Politics Without Blinders
James McCullough Monday, 1 March 2004
David T. Koyzis, Political Visions and Illusions: A Survey and Christian Critique of Contemporary Ideologies (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2003). 280 pp. $18.00.
Toward the conclusion of Political Visions and Illusions, political scientist David Koyzis speaks of his hope that his project would help spur "a Christian democratic movement." By this he does not mean another political party, but rather a movement among orthodox Christians—a category in which I believe he would include biblically grounded Protestants, Roman Catholics, and Eastern Orthodox believers—who are committed to thinking Christianly about the political realm and to assisting their neighbors in the ongoing construction of a more perfect common life. Such a movement is justified because, as Koyzis writes, "a Christian approach to politics and justice, insofar as it avoids ideological thinking, has the advantage of being more in tune with the world as God's creation, that is, as it really and irreducibly is" (p. 266-67).
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