The Protestant and Politics
About this book
Nonpoliticalism is an American tradition. In the first three chapters of his excellent study, Mr. Miller argues why this attitude is in deep error – and takes his fellow Protestants to task for the large part they have played in creating it. The following two thirds of the book illuminate the positive connections between Christianity and politics – how the faith provides, not precise answers to specific problems, but the reason for seeing in all of them relative issues only, and for knowing that no earthly solution to them can ever be absolute, final, or complete. The author's highly important aim is to show how the Christian faith can raise the level of political activity in the United States, and how the politically enlightened Christian fulfills the obligations of democratic citizenship, not in spite of religious belief, but inevitably more calmly, more open-mindedly, more constructively because of it. [From jacket flap]