Christianity and Politics

by C C Pecknold

It is not simply for rhetorical flourish that politicians so regularly invoke God's blessings on the country. It is because the relatively new form of power we call the nation-state arose out of a Western political imagination steeped in Christianity. In this brief guide to the history of Christianity and politics, Pecknold shows how early Christianity reshaped the Western political imagination with its new theological claims about eschatological...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1498210767
• ISBN13: 9781498210768
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Cascade Books
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 8.0"