Church, State, and Public Justice: Five Views. Edited by P.C. Kemeny. With contributions by Clarke E. Cochran, Derek H. Davis, Ronald J. Sider, Corwin Smidt, and J. Philip Wogaman. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 2007. 268pp. $19.00.
The book presents five different views about the relationship between church and state in seeking public justice: Catholic, Classical Separation, Principled Pluralist, Anabaptist, and Social Justice. The scholarly representative from each tradition attempts to inform the reader of the mission of the church, the purpose of the state, the proper relationship between them, and how each together (or separately) resolve social injustice. ...