American Providence: A Nation with a Mission

by Stephen H. Webb

Overview

Webb defends the idea that American foreign policy should be seen as a vehicle of God's design. He maintains that American Christianity is not an oxymoron, and Christians should not be ashamed to display their American identity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826418555
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	03/17/2006
Edition description:	ANN
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.41(d)

About the Author

Stephen H. Webb is Professor of Religion and Philosophy at Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana. He is the author of seven books, including The Divine Voice, Good Eating, On God and Dogs and The Gifting of God.

Editorial Reviews

"Webb nicely shows that, however much they try to distance themselves from the doctrine of Providence, theologians and politicians cannot avoid the providential task of reading the signs of the times... American Providence is based upon a number of insights concerning the relationship Christianity, American democracy, and globalism...Webb makes a persuasive case against both the prevailing secular ethos, which continues to embrace the untenable anthropology of Enlightenment liberalism, and a Christian ecclesiocentrism, which moves God from the global, historical stage to the splendid isolation of the Church's internally focused story and practice....Webb is correct that we must read the signs of the times....I will recommend his book not only because it reveals how essential the doctrine of Providence is for public life today, but because it offers an example of the dangerous corruptions to which it is always prone." - Political Theology--Sanford Lakoff "Political Theology "

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