The Reconstruction of the Republic

📖 The Scoop

"America's Christians have become second-class citizens, observes seminary professor Harold O. J. Brown. Unfortunately, he adds, Christians have only themselves to blame. Every other group, from organized labor to Gay Liberation, demands it say in public policy. But Christians have defaulted. Instead of acting as the salt of the earth and the light of the world, the churches have withdrawn into a snug shell of personal piety. In this carefully reasoned book, Dr. Brown explodes the fallacy, still held by many evangelical Christians, that "religion and politics don't mix." Our Republic was founded on biblical principles. Christians took an active part in farming our laws and establishing our state and federal governments. Although men like Jefferson and Franklin were influenced by secular humanism, it was not until recently that this creed got the upper hand in our public life. One ominous sign of the times: when the Supreme Court approved abortion n demand, it brushed aside the entire Judeo-Christian tradition to embrace a practice of ancient paganism. Can America recover her biblical heritage? Harold Brown believes we can. Combining scholarship with a lively pen, he confronts the tough questions and gives us Christian answers on crime and punishment, the link between economic and political freedom, bureaucracy, the family, public versus private morality, bussing, ERA, inflation, welfare, sex education, the strategic military balance, national versus individual guilt, and the failure of the public schools." --Publisher

Genre: Religion / Christianity / General (fancy, right?)