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How involved in politics should Christians be and how should they conduct themselves? Does politics inform faith or does faith inform politics?
The world has changed since Nathan Driscoll grew up in the 1950s. In post-war Britain economic recovery, the Cold War between the US and the USSR (Russia, as it is now), the miners’ strike, the conflict in Northern Ireland and becoming part of the European Union are some of the things that stand out in his memory. Today the nation state has become more protective of its borders, given the number of displaced people and refugees in the world, while the trade boundaries and networks can cross continents at the touch of an investor’s computer click.
The West no longer dominates the economic agenda, with mid-Asia and the Far East changing the map on an ever-increasing basis. Africa lags behind economically, but richer economies and companies are purloining the natural resources there. The oil-rich theocracies complicate the already deep tribal and religious conflicts in the Middle East and the media have a much tighter grip on what we know and what we don’t know. In the middle of all this are questions of climate change and human rights.
The purpose of this book is to reflect on how the Christian faith can be relevant to the political problems of modern societies. When is it right to acquiesce and when is it right to resist?
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Nathan Driscoll===============
Nathan Driscoll Is a philosopher retired social worker and a teacher. He is the author of The God Dilemma - A Philosophical Walk for the Undecided and The Good Question - Is Goodness essential or a luxury?
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The book of Genesis is principally about the start of God’s relationship with humanity. After the Fall and the Flood, God ‘regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled’ because of the extent of human wickedness.2 Consequently, the Law was given. In addition to the moral and spiritual force of the Ten Commandments, the practical instructions for living in Exodus and Leviticus were detailed and prescriptive, constituting a radical set of rules for an explicitly primitive and idolatrous society, a society with which we have no cultural empathy. The Old Testament goes on to describe a series of political arrangements involving judges, kings and relations between Israel and other nations. God’s aim of keeping His chosen people holy was in the end a story of human failure and bloodshed interspersed by shafts of moral regeneration delivered by the prophets and a few righteous leaders.It is sometimes claimed that it is God who has failed because human beings have rejected Him. My approach to this problem is that it is not a failure for God to have opened Himself to rejection, but it would be a failure had He not been able to accept and overcome it. For me, the death and resurrection of Christ is clear evidence that God, in human form, has done just that. Some Christians are uncomfortable with the idea that God’s sovereignty might be jeopardised through Him releasing absolute control, preferring to focus on the idea of God’s foreknowledge of history. I find it easier to relate to the former idea of God opening Himself to uncertainty as it concurs with my own understanding of what is entailed in a trusting relationship.
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