The Politics of God

by Hugh J. Schonfield

Overview

The world of today is full of knowledge, but largely empty of wisdom. The skilfulness of man has been remarkably sharpened, but his sensitivities in respect of many effects of his skills have been strangely blunted. The capacity to save life has greatly increased at a time when violence and brutality has been intensified and the wholesale destruction of living things from plants up to humans has become a commonplace, while abundant means exist to raise character and behaviour to their highest level the spectacle presented to the young is that of a society governed by self-interest and power-seeking, cunning and duplicity. Both the eggheads and the boneheads are made the creatures of the wolfheads. Where peace and harmony might reign there is noise and strife, the spread of noxious fumes and substances and noxious thoughts and policies, the poisoning of mind and body and environment. Where heaven on earth is practicable mankind seems bent on contriving a hell.

Hugh J. Schonfield

In this book I am arguing the case for a more confident interpretation of our contemporary circumstances, not on any basis of superior learning, but in the light of insights which have affected my whole life, and which have been confirmed by study and experience.
My theme is the message of Messianism for modern man. It is not one which is widely apprehended and canvassed; for although it has been prominent in past periods, especially at a particular epoch, it has been so much misunderstood that it has been brought into disrepute and neglect. Yet, as I shall endeavour to show, what has largely been despised and rejected of men alone affords the means of our salvation.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940165267338
Publisher:	Texianer Verlag
Publication date:	04/19/2021
Sold by:	Draft2Digital
Format:	eBook
File size:	488 KB

About the Author

Hugh J. Schonfield wrote over 40 books including commercially successful books in the fields of history and biography as well as religion. In 1958 his non-ecclesiastical historical translation of the New Testament was published in the UK and the US, titled The Authentic New Testament. This aimed to show without idealised interpretation the meaning intended by the writers while maintaining the original structures. A revised version appeared in 1985 titled The Original New Testament.

Table of Contents

Prologue 7

Part One 13

• God and Man 13
• Towards the Theocratic 19
• In Fear and in Anger 27
• Messianism 33
• The Priestly People 39
• The Holy King 45
• Conflicting Claims 51
• The Times of the Gentiles 57
• What may be Gleaned 63

Part Two 71

• Twentieth Century Man 71
• War and Law 77
• One World 83
• The Brink or the Eve? 91
• A Time of Testing 97
• The Third Phase 105
• Plan in Progress 113

Epilogue 121

Appendix 123

• The Mondcivitan Constitution: Preamble and Principles 123
• The Preamble 123
• Principles 124

Index