Comments on: Random thoughts on preachers, war, truth, and consequences http://www.theologyofnuance.com/index.php/2009/02/25/644/ Sat, 10 Jul 2010 20:55:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Scott Starr http://www.theologyofnuance.com/index.php/2009/02/25/644/comment-page-1/#comment-1670 Scott Starr Sat, 28 Feb 2009 15:52:07 +0000 http://www.theologyofnuance.com/?p=644#comment-1670 Nice work. I think that when you get around to reading Greg Boyd's "The Myth of a Christian Nation: How the Quest for Political Power Is Destroying the Church", that it too will make your list of good books written by preacher man authors. Here is Boyd's thesis in his own words: "My thesis which caused such an uproar, is this: I believe a significant segment of American evangelicalism is guilty of nationalistic and political idolatry, to a frightful degree, I think, evangelicals fuse the kingdom of God with a preferred version of the kingdom of the world (whether it's our national interests, a particular form of government, a particular political program, or so on). Rather than focusing our understanding of God's Kingdom on the person of Jesus- who incidentally, never allowed himself to get pulled into the political disputes of his day- I believe many of us American evangelicals have allowed our understanding of the Kingdom of God to be polluted with political ideals, agendas, and issues." Nice work. I think that when you get around to reading Greg Boyd’s “The Myth of a Christian Nation: How the Quest for Political Power Is Destroying the Church”, that it too will make your list of good books written by preacher man authors.

Here is Boyd’s thesis in his own words:

“My thesis which caused such an uproar, is this: I believe a significant segment of American evangelicalism is guilty of nationalistic and political idolatry, to a frightful degree, I think, evangelicals fuse the kingdom of God with a preferred version of the kingdom of the world (whether it’s our national interests, a particular form of government, a particular political program, or so on). Rather than focusing our understanding of God’s Kingdom on the person of Jesus- who incidentally, never allowed himself to get pulled into the political disputes of his day- I believe many of us American evangelicals have allowed our understanding of the Kingdom of God to be polluted with political ideals, agendas, and issues.”

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