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Article: Sovereignty: God, State, and Self.(Book review)
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- The Christian Century
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- October 21, 2008
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Sovereignty: God, State, and Self.
By Jean Bethke Elshtain.
Basic Books, 334 pp., $35.00.
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We have come a long way from the naked public square. Political strategists have learned that for most people there is a connection between their religious beliefs and their political choices. The next step may be to understand that our most basic ways of thinking about politics begin in theology. The connection is historical because religion provides a rich source of political images and examples, from Moses and David to Ahab and Pilate. But the connection between theology and politics is also conceptual because thinking ...
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