Faithful Citizenship: A Book Excerpt

April 11, 2012 by Greg Garrett

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What does Jesus have to say about how we live in community?

What does the tradition have to tell us about how we are supposed to treat each other?

How can we extrapolate from these Christian ideals to specific political beliefs, rather than trying to reconcile our personal and political beliefs to our faith?

How should we vote, what are our rights and responsibilities as Christians in America, what is the Christian notion of good government?

If we can answer these questions for ourselves faithfully, then when it comes time to wrestle with specific and topical political issue—in later chapters of this book, in the coming election, and in the months and years to come—we will be much more likely to approach those complicated and emotion-filled issues through our Christian theological understandings than to retrofit our religious beliefs to match what we already think we think.

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About Greg Garrett

Greg Garrett is (according to BBC Radio) one of America's leading voices on religion and culture. He is the author or co-author of over twenty books of fiction, theology, cultural criticism, and spiritual autobiography. His most recent books are The Prodigal, written with the legendary Brennan Manning, Entertaining Judgment: The Afterlife in Popular Imagination, and My Church Is Not Dying: Episcopalians in the 21st Century. A contributor to Patheos since 2010, Greg also writes for the Huffington Post, Salon.com, OnFaith, The Tablet, Reform, and other web and print publications in the US and UK.

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