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The legalism of political Christianity

By Alliance Alert

Jordan Ballor writing at The Acton Institute: "What is shared in what we might call the ?legalistic impulse? of much of both conservative and progressive political Christianity is the priority of the role of the government in determining the course of our social life. Both versions of political Christianity, to one extent or another, subsume the Church under the State as a kind of activist lobby (albeit of a special religious character). In this brand of legalism, fidelity to the Christian faith is defined in political terms."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on November 17, 2010 (boomark / email).