`Religion and politics are necessarily related', declared Ronald Reagan, while addressing an ecumenical prayer breakfast of 17,000 people in Dallas. But how are they connected? Many popular images of God - King, Lord, and Judge - are essentially political, while concepts of might, majesty, dominion, and power are used of both God and the state. This ambitious and original work explores the relations between these images and their political context through the analogy between divine and civil government, and considers what ...
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`Religion and politics are necessarily related', declared Ronald Reagan, while addressing an ecumenical prayer breakfast of 17,000 people in Dallas. But how are they connected? Many popular images of God - King, Lord, and Judge - are essentially political, while concepts of might, majesty, dominion, and power are used of both God and the state. This ambitious and original work explores the relations between these images and their political context through the analogy between divine and civil government, and considers what images of God may legitimately be employed by Christians in the twentieth century. David Nicholls suggests that religious conceptions have often affected political thinking - theological rhetoric, child of political experience, may also be mother of political change. Drawing upon politics, theology, history, sociology, anthropology, and literary criticism, this important new book will be essential reading for all concerned with the relation between Christianity and politics.
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First Paperback Edition Published In 1994. Routledge. Softcover. GOOD First paperback edition. Black illustrated covers, light blue & white titles. Text is clear & bright. The pages are clean. There is an old sticker mark on the back cover. The top of the spine is creased. 8x5.
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Good. Ex-library with associated stamps/labels etc. 2001 reprint. Plastic film over cover. Some creases to page edges. Text very good. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 336 p. Images of God and the State in the 19th and 20th Centuries.
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Fine. Text block, wraps and binding are in like new condition, without markings of any kind. Previous owners name on the inside of front endpaper. Well packaged and promptly shipped from California. Partnered with Friends of the Library since 2010.
