This volume explores Christianity’s relationship with democracy in a global perspective.
How are the various democratic ideals being addressed by influential Christian intellectuals, theologians, ethicists, churches and church leaders around the world today? The contributors reflect on the status of the democratic idea in the churches, theological academy and public religious life in a variety of social and political contexts. They consider how the democratic idea can be cultivated in Christian communities and intellectual traditions with a view to contemporary challenges.
This book will be of particular interest to scholars of religion, theology and political science.
David P. Gushee is Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics at Mercer University, USA. He is also Chair of Christian Social Ethics at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Senior Research Fellow at the International Baptist Theological Study Centre in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Paul Silas Peterson is Privatdozent in the Faculty of Protestant Theology of the University of Tübingen, Germany, and Protestant theologian at the Bundeswehr Centre of Military History and Social Sciences, Potsdam, Germany.
