I've been reading some books on Christian engagement in politics (with a small "p") and I thought I'd review them to give you some highlights. A great place to start is with Miroslav Volf's A Public Faith: How Followers of Christ Should Serve the Common Good. Volf is a Croatian-born theologian who studied in Germany under Juergen Moltmann and is now a professor of theology at Yale Divinity School in the USA. Among other things, he is Director of the Yale Center for Faith and Culture, an institute dedicated to the study of the intersection between faith and wider culture. He is learned and erudite but also a very accessible author. He is also open to a wide set of influences, drawing on Islamic and Jewish thinkers as well as Christian ones. His book has a very simple, elegant construction around a set of pairs through which he drives a rather Aristotelian "golden mean". Volf conceives of Christianity, along with Islam and Judaism, as a prophetic
'Contemplating the teeming life of the shore, we have an uneasy sense of the communication of some universal truth that lies just beyond our grasp.' - Rachel Carson