In The Bible in Politics: How to Read the Bible Politically (Second Edition), Richard Bauckham instructs Christians in the art of letting the Bible inform politics, rather than using the Bible to justify their own positions.
Bauckham, a widely published British scholar, first published The Bible in Politics in 1989, when the world was still sharply divided between the communist East and free-market West. Nearly two and a half decades later, new political divisions have arisen, with the conflict between radical Islamists and the West often capturing the headlines. Issues such as climate change and globalization, which were hardly on anyone’s political map twenty years ago, are now primary issues.
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