Tag: Politics
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Ours is Endurance and Faith
“When we live in a world of violence long enough, it is easy to adopt violent means ourselves, especially when we know that our cause is righteous and the opposition is evil. Religious faith, especially when zealous, is no stranger to the exercise of violent force. And so St. John, having set down his counsel…
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Ecclesiology is Politics
The greatest political events take place in the church. Empires have fallen. Kingdoms have crumbled into dust. Kings and rulers have died and are forgotten. The church of the living God marches on. Jesus joined no political party, held no political position, and more or less steered away from the political controversies of his day.…
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Niebuhr on Democracy
Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. – Reinhold Niebuhr, The Children of Light and Children of Darkness.
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Democracy on Trial
Just a few more pages and I’m through with Bethke Elshtain’s Democracy on Trial. I guess the long and short of what I’ve learned from this books is that – … human beings will always fall short of an absolute ideal… “the only reasonable hope for salvation from evil and wickedness at which men might…
PHILIPPINE THEO LAW GEE 