Comment magazine has posted my article on
Christianity and Ideologies, with the subtitle, "Embracing the rich diversity of God's world helps us resist distorting it." An excerpt:
Christians, like all of us, are prone to
succumb to the temptation to embrace another such story—something that
promises earthly salvation on human terms. As such we are not so much
living out God’s kingdom in our daily lives as undertaking to build an
approximation of that kingdom in our own societies. It is tempting to
ascribe redemptive significance to our own fallible goals and policy
proposals. Because the regnant ideologies have formulated their own
solutions to social ills, and because one cannot simply draw a program
of cultural or political renewal straight from the Scriptures,
Christians too easily latch onto a ready-made agenda offered by the
ideologies, bypassing the hard work of fleshing out the implications of
the biblical narrative for our shared life as citizens of a political
community. Hence the proliferation of Christian nationalists, Christian
socialists, and even Christian Marxists.
Read the entire article here.
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