Jim Wallis’ Politics—or Lack Thereof
Paul Marshall Wednesday, 1 March 2006
Jim Wallis, God's Politics: Why the Right Gets it Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It (HarperSanFrancisco, 2005). 416 pp. $25.95.
One relatively new feature in evangelical circles is a fusion of two currents.
One is the long standing Anabaptist/pacifist/nonviolent stream of Christianity often embodied in the Amish, Hutterites, and Old Order Mennonites. Historically these groups have tended to concentrate on seeking to create and model a Christian society within their own community as a sign to the world of God's Kingdom. More recently, especially through the writings of John Howard Yoder and, later, Stanley Hauerwas, John Milbank, and others, their views have shaped a wider audience, though one that is still disproportionately present largely in academic circles.
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