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Few topics can grab headlines and stir passions quite like politics, especially when the church is involved. Considering the attention that many Christian parachurch groups, churches, and individual believers give to politics—and of the varying and sometimes divergent political ideals and aims among them—Five Views on the Church and Politics provides a helpful breakdown of the possible Christian...

Two characteristics of political philosophy set the context for Anabaptist political thought. A version of the political philosophy and virtue ethics of Aristotle—mediated through Thomas Aquinas and other scholastics—and an unpolished version of Augustine’s subtle analysis of human affairs offered the Reformation (and Counter-Reformation) thinkers alternative constructs for reflecting on the purposes and possibilities of politics. Roman Catholics and Protestant
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