Politics Strangely Warmed
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For centuries, Christians have wrestled with how to witness faithfully to the peaceable kingdom of God, while also living as citizens within an earthly nation-state. Differing theological traditions have offered wide-ranging contributions to the field of political theology, yet the Wesleyan tradition has too often remained largely silent. In this volume, Coates turns to two key figures within his own Wesleyan tradition--John Wesley and B. T. Roberts--in order to construct a distinctively Wesleyan political theology. He argues that embedded within Wesleys theology were the seeds of a radically people-centered, egalitarian politic, despite the fact that Wesley himself never fully realized these implications himself. Ultimately, however, the populism of B. T. Roberts and his work to organize the Farmers Alliance of the late-nineteenth century would come to represent one concrete, historical manifestation of Wesleys theology in the public sphere.Here is a book not merely for academics interested in the Wesleyan tradition or political theology, but also for all followers of Christ who desire to see the church model the ethic of Christ before the worldly powers in the midst of this saeculum.In this book, Greg Coates examines John Wesleys understandings of the image of God and its consequences for political action, and the way in which one American Methodist, B. T. Roberts, followed them to a more consistent and helpful political praxis than Wesley himself did. He argues persuasively that Roberts, assuming Wesleyan commitments to the poor, holistic salvation, and a biblical eschatology, offers a framework for political and social engagement that promises freedom from the current false ideological alternatives we often face. It is a discussion that remains faithful to the scriptural story read and lived, in the light of tradition, experience, and reason. I commend it to all seeking to navigate through the electoral wildernesses around us.--David W. Kendall, Bis
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