What Are Christians For?
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What Are Christians For?

Life Together at the End of the World

  1. 192 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

What Are Christians For?

Life Together at the End of the World

About this book

What does a Christian political witness look like in our day?

Politics ought to be defined by fidelity to the common good of all the members of society. But our modern Western politics are defined by a determination to bend the natural world and human life to its own political and economic ends. This wholesale rejection of the natural order is behind the dominant revolutions in our history, and defines our experience in Western society today—our racialized hierarchy, modern industry, and the sexual revolution.

In What Are Christians For?, Jake Meador lays out a proposal for a Christian politics rooted in the givenness and goodness of the created world. He is uninterested in the cultural wars that have so often characterized American Christianity. Instead, he casts a vision for an ordered society that rejects the late modern revolution at every turn and is rooted in the natural law tradition and the great Protestant confessions. Here is a political approach that is antiracist, anticapitalist, and profoundly pro-life. A truly Christian political witness, Meador argues, must attend closely to the natural world and renounce the metallic fantasies that have poisoned common life in America life for too long.

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Information

Publisher
IVP
Year
2022
Print ISBN
9780830847365

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication Page
  4. Contents
  5. Foreword by Karen Swallow Prior
  6. Introduction: Whole Life Politics at the End of the World
  7. 1 An Immense Inheritance: A Christian Account of Nature
  8. 2 The Great Uprooting: Race and the End of Nature
  9. 3 The Unmaking of Places: The Fruit of Industrialism
  10. 4 The Unmaking of the Body: Considering the Sexual Revolution
  11. 5 The Unmaking of the Real: Wonder Among the Institutions
  12. 6 Against the Revolution: The Beginnings of Christian Social Doctrine
  13. 7 The Earth Is Our Mother: On Christianity, Land, and Animals
  14. 8 A Vision of Christian Belonging: The Household and the Sexual Revolution
  15. 9 The World in Cracked Icons: Wonder, Death, and the End of All Things
  16. 10 Politics Beyond Accomplishment: Toward a Politics of Care
  17. Acknowledgments
  18. Notes
  19. Also by Jake Meador
  20. Praise for What Are Christians For?
  21. About the Author
  22. More Titles from InterVarsity Press
  23. Copyright