In his new book, Political Visions and Illusions, David Koyzis dissects liberalism, conservatism, nationalism, democratism, and socialism in a way that opens a new perspective on the requirements for a Christian approach to politics that is not captive to contemporary ideologies.
First brought to public consciousness by Dostoyevsky, the Russian Idea is much in discussion in Russia today. But what is it? A civil religion? An ideology? A form of nationalism? It may be all of these and more, explain Adrian and Wendy Helleman, whose book on the subject will be published in the near future. Older than America's sense of God's special election, the Russian Idea goes back to the Orthodox belief that Moscow is the third Rome, the center of Christianity, after Rome and Constantinople.
No one had a greater impact on halting the slave trade and eventually ending slavery in the British empire than William Wilberforce (1759-1833). Jack Boeve reviews Hero for Humanity, Kevin Belmonte's biography of the famous evangelical parliamentarian.
The chief subject of this issue's frontpage article, Herman Dooyeweerd, was interviewed by Magnus Verbrugge in 1974 on the question of the ownership of capital and of a business enterprise. Dooyeweerd's answers may surprise you.
This issue of the Public Justice Report puts the spotlight on philosophy and books, ideas and worldviews. Ideas have legs and influence the shape of our political system and its laws. Just government and just laws require that our ideas and actions are humble, wise political and legal responses to God.
Stephen Lazarus reviews David Naugle's new book, Worldview. Anything you wanted to know about the history and use of "worldview" is covered here. The word was coined by humanist philosophers but today is explored and used most extensively by Protestant evangelicals.
A revival of biblical scholarship is under way, leading to new insights into the Bible's political breadth and depth. Covenant and monarchy, justice and legal systems, God's kingdom and human governments-all of these and more are illumined in the new book, A Royal Priesthood?
Twentieth-century political philosophers Leo Strauss and Sayyid Qutb are now having immense impact in the United States and throughout the Muslim world through their students and disciples. Philosopher Herman Dooyeweerd, a contemporary of Strauss and Qutb, should be taken more seriously by Christians who need to come to grips with the religiously deep sources of modern political systems and the ideologies competing to shape them.
