Summary: Faith and Politics E-Book

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• Herausgeber: Political Book Summaries
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 17

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

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The must-read summary of Senator John Danforth's book: “Faith and Politics: How the “Moral Values” Debate Divides America and How to Move Forward Together”.

This complete summary of "Faith and Politics" by John Danforth, a former three-term Republican US senator, presents the author's examination of the drift of the Republican Party towards the Christian far-right and his argument that it was a wrong choice. He states that Christian moderates are the ones that will bring the country together, towards a more secular approach to ethical issues.

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To learn more, read "Faith and Politics" and discover Danforth's view that the Republican Party should stop moving towards far-right Christianity and take a more secular and moderate approach.

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Book Presentation: Faith and Politics by Senator John Danforth

Book Abstract

Senator Danforth believes the Republican Party’s drift towards the Christian Right in recent years has been a step in the wrong direction. The right’s focus on “wedge” issues like abortion and gay rights has divided American politics and the Republican Party has abandoned its traditional principles of less government in order to cater to its conservative religious base. No group should lay claim to God’s truth in pressing its agenda. Instead, Christians must approach politics in the spirit of humility, recognizing that Christianity can encompass many views and beliefs. Danforth asserts that it is up to Christian moderates to bring forth a stronger voice for moderation and a policy of reconciliation to heal the divides formed by our country’s religious polarization.

About the Author

John Danforth is an ordained Episcopal priest, former three-term U.S. senator (R-MO) and former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. In 2001, President Bush appointed Danforth as special envoy for peace in Sudan, where he worked to broker a peace agreement that, in 2005, ultimately ended the twenty-year civil war.

Summary of Faith and Politics (Senator John Danforth)

Are Christians Reconcilers or Dividers?

Religion can draw people together. In American politics today, Christians coming together in community are in evidence at the weekly Senate prayer breakfasts, where Senators from a variety of backgrounds join for a meeting focused on prayer, discussion, and personal support, leaving the contentious issues of the day behind them. Yet religion can also divide people, even leading to religious wars, as history has recently shown us in the Middle East, Iraq, and the Balkans. Throughout American history, “the challenge to America’s government has been to hold together in one nation people of different interests and, increasingly, members of different religions, ethnicities and races.” Currently, however, religion has become the wedge driving Americans apart.