Product Description

Mott seeks to advance the role of biblical and theological values in the political lives of individual Christians and the public discourse of American Society. Mott argues that Americans want to make choices in terms of a general standard of right and wrong, but tend to lack an objective formulation of a Christian political theory they can supply the norms essential for such a foundation.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2445631 in Books
• Published on: 1993-07-22
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 352 pages

Review
"Stephen Mott compellingly argues that the major contending political stances rest on competing views of justice, that we can tell the more valid from the less valid views, and that the biblical understanding of justice is more basic than thinner, flatter modern views and most classical, secular ones. This is a substantive contribution to public discourse."--Max L. Stackhouse, Andover Newton Theological Seminary
"Mott's work will aid in the intelligent evaluation of the political realities that affect all of us."--Spiritual Life
"[Mott] is academic in the best sense - one gets the impression that he has thought deeply about his subject, and he writes with that rare amalgam of authority and clarity. It is always a delight to find somebody who is so steeped in the literature on political philosophy. Mott does not write in an evangelical 'bubble' but takes on the best of them....[A Christian Perspective on Political Thought] deserves a central place on reading lists in theological colleges and university departments."--Third Way
"A scrupulously researched and carefully organized guide book to modern Protestant religious thinking in a world of fearful political crises."--Ward M. Morton, Southern Illinois University
"This book should be greeted as another sign of evangelical scholarship's arrival into the mainstream of American public discourse....An impressive intellectual effort....Clearly, Mott has done his homework, indicating again that theologians are sometimes the most broadly conversant intellectuals we have. One can learn much from the densely packed chapters."--The Review of Politics