Book Reviews

Review of Bruce Benson and Peter Heltzel, Evangelicals and Empire: Christian Alternatives to the Political Status Quo (Baker Academic, 2008).  My review is forthcoming in International Journal of Systematic Theology.   Benson and Heltzel set out to offer a critique of the "political status quo" ostensibly from the position of being "radical evangelicals."  While the essential motivation--to come to terms with America's increasing status as an "empire"--is laudable, I think these essays falter for two main reasons: (1) not being radical enough, and (2) perpetuating the status quo.

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