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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...

To begin, Israel’s most famous kings, David and Solomon, carried on peaceful relations with many nations outside their land. Granted, the Old Testament historical books record God’s displeasure with Israelite kings who collaborated with gentile nations in ways that compromised their allegiance to him. But David and Solomon were relatively righteous. They reigned during years when God prospered Israel, and Scripture does not condemn their collaboration with Hiram, king of Tyre (1 Kgs 5; 10:11, 22),
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