The Kingdom of Christ: The New Evangelical Perspective
In this scholarly work, Russell D. Moore relates the history leading up to the new "Kingdom" consensus among evangelicals from the time theologian Carl F. H. Henry called for it fifty years ago. He examines how this consensus offers a renewed theological foundation for evangelical engagement in the social and political realms.
While evangelical scholars and pastors will be interested in this sharp, insightful book, all evangelicals interested in public policy will find it useful in discovering how this new Kingdom perspective works out in the public square.
Top Highlights
“Instead, it came through the mobilization of the Christian right following the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion, an act that served as the opening shot of the ‘culture wars.’” (source)
“‘The more that a nation chooses to secularize the principal contact points between government and people—not only the public schools, but little things, like names and numbers and symbols, and big things, like taxes and marriage and, ultimately, politics itself—the more it will persuade many religious people that a culture war has indeed been declared, and not by the Right.’” (source)
“the core of evangelical identity, that conservative Protestantism faced its crisis over the Kingdom of God” (source)
“ progressive dispensationalists do not equate the millennial reign of Christ with the Kingdom of God,” (source)
“revolting against the prophetic detail of dispensational premillennialism” (source)
Product Details
- Title : The Kingdom of Christ: The New Evangelical Perspective
- Author: Moore, Russell
- Publisher: Crossway
- Publication Date: 2004
- ISBN: 9781433517655
Russell Moore (PhD, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) is public theologian at Christianity Today and director of Christianity Today's Public Theology Project. He is a widely-sought commentator and the author of several books, including The Kingdom of Christ; Adopted for Life; and Tempted and Tried. Moore blogs regularly at RussellMoore.com and tweets at @drmoore. He and his wife, Maria, have five sons.
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Zsombor Henter
10/2/2024
Thanks for Mathew and Lee for the useful information about the background of the author. This saved me from investing in a book that has a theological bacground I do not wish to give money for. I would be happy if these informations were more public and easily accessible. Would save a lot of time and effort to avoid unwanted purchases.
Lee Walti
3/16/2021
I disagree with Mathew in this post .. I don't believe that Russell Moore believes in women pastors and as the person who was in charge of ethics commission for the Southern Baptist Convention, it would not be possible for someone of this theological persuasion to hold this position.
Mathew Haferkamp
3/2/2021
FYI the author of this book supports female elders (pastors), critical race theory, and more.
