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God's Politics : Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It
by Authors: Jim Wallis

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Description: Secular liberals and religious conservatives will find things to both comfort and alarm them in Jim Wallis's God's Politics. That combination is actually reason enough to recommend the book in a time when the national political and theological discourse is dominated by blanket descriptions and shortsightedness. But Wallis, editor of Sojourners magazine, offers more than just a book that's hard to categorize. What Wallis sees as the true mission of Christianity--righting social ills, working for peace--is in tune with the values of liberals who so often run screaming from the idea of religion. Meanwhile, in his estimation, religious vocabulary is co-opted by conservatives who use it to polarize. Wallis proposes a new sort of politics, the name of which serves as the title of the book, wherein these disparities are reconciled and progressive causes are paired with spiritual guidance for the betterment of society. Wallis is at his most compelling when he puts this theory into action himself, letting his own beliefs guide him through stinging criticisms of the war in Iraq. In his view, George W. Bush's flaw lies in the assumption that the United States was an unprecedented force of goodness in a fight against enemies characterized as "evil." Indeed, although both the right and left are criticized here, the idea is that the liberals, if they would get religion, are the more redeemable lot. Wallis's line between religion and public policy may be drawn a little differently than most liberals might feel comfortable with, and while he pays some lip service to other faiths most of his prescription for America seems to come from the Bible. Still, for a party having just lost a presidential election where "moral issues" are said to have factored heavily, God's Politics is a sermon worth listening to. --John Moe
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"Prophetically Correct"

Wallis' book is essential for anyone who is searching for a Biblical foundation as an evaluative tool in the face of our political, cultural situation today. To be "politically correct" is seldom the same as being "prophetically correct". Wallis invites us to "re-image" our approaches for effective solutions to the "evils of the day." Independently of applying them to the specific political parties and politians of the day, I found the principles stand on their own as "touchstones," articulating the vision that focuses on the "common good." It is only a unified striving for this common good that can help us pull out of the morass sucking us down into destructive greed, power, control, individualism, violence, and all that shatters any hope of being a community of justice and peace. "God's Politics" is a light beaming in the darkness.


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Jim's perfect son...

Look, I'm a Christian and I'm a believer in civil rights. I think Martin Luther King Jr. was an important figure in American history. Hey, I've even visited the Lorraine Motel and his old church in Atlanta, having come over from the UK to see them.

BUT FOR GOODNESS' SAKE, WHAT KIND OF SELF-SATISFIED BORE TAKES SUCH DELIGHT IN WRITING PAGE AFTER PAGE ABOUT HOW HE EDUCATES HIS TODDLER ABOUT THE GUY?!?! HONESTLY....

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C. E. Lawrence

Do not be misled by the title of this book. It is not, as I expected it to be, a scholarly treatment in Christian Appologetics addressing the manner in which God would have politics work, according to Biblical teachings, in our nation and the world. Instead, this book monotonously espouses a so-called "progressive" approach to infusing politics with ultra liberal attitudes toward morality, throughout an agonizingly long and redundant diatribe against George W. Bush and those holding a true Biblical Worldview. This "progressive" attitude has no basis in Biblically based Christian theology. If Mr. Wallis is an Evangelist, at all, he is clearly not a Christian Evangelist. If you are a liberal, and particularly if you are an avid Bush-basher, you will like the book. For those truly seeking to know how God would have us conduct politics, however, don't waste your time or money on this book.

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