Wayward Christian Soldiers: Freeing the Gospel from Political Captivity.(Brief article)(Book review)
First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, June, 2008
WAYWARD CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS:
FREEING THE GOSPEL FROM
POLITICAL CAPTIVITY
by Charles Marsh
Oxford University Press,
256 pages, $25
A professor of religion at the University of Virginia rails against the uncritical adherence of evangelicals to George W. Bush and the Republican party. There is indeed much to rail against when Christ and partisan politics are conflated, and Marsh draws suggestive parallels with Karl Barth's incisive critique of liberal theology in Germany that produced the idolatry of Kulturprotestantismus. Marsh's criticism of his fellow evangelicals is frequently over the top, however, and he offers slight guidance for faithful members of what St. Augustine called the City of God in their exercise of...
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