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Politics after Christendom: Political Theology in a Fractured World is unavailable, but you can change that!

For more than a millennium, beginning in the early Middle Ages, most Western Christians lived in societies that sought to be comprehensively Christian—ecclesiastically, economically, legally, and politically. That is to say, most Western Christians lived in Christendom. But in a gradual process beginning a few hundred years ago, Christendom weakened and finally crumbled. Today, most Christians in...

The previous chapters have argued that common political communities originated in the Noahic covenant, and thus these communities are bound by this covenant’s terms. If this argument is sound, it raises an important question: How do common political communities know about their relationship to God through the Noahic covenant? How do they know their responsibilities under it? It is not sufficient simply to point to Genesis 8:21–9:17. This text is part
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