Is There an Evangelical Political Philosophy?
James McCullough Friday, 1 September 2006
Ronald J. Sider and Diane Knippers, eds., Toward an Evangelical Public Policy: Political Strategies for the Health of the Nation (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2005). 380 pp. $24.99.
Some twelve years ago, Mark Noll addressed the question of the evangelical mind in what has become a famous opener: "The scandal of the evangelical mind is that there is not much of an evangelical mind." There is a sense in which editors Ronald Sider and the late Diane Knippers ask a corollary question, whether or not there is such a thing as a distinctively evangelical political philosophy. Their joint effort, Toward an Evangelical Public Policy, provides glimpses into such a possibility by means of an historical, methodological, and thematic framework for discussion.
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