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Christianity and Democracy in Global Context
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Christianity and Democracy in Global Context
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Christianity and Democracy in Global Context book
Edited ByJohn Witte
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 1993
eBook Published 17 June 2019
Pub. Location New York
Imprint Routledge
Pages 344
eBook ISBN 9780429037689
Subjects Social Sciences
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Witte, J. (Ed.). (1993). Christianity and Democracy in Global Context (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429037689
ABSTRACT
In the past, Christianity has had both positive and negative influences on democracy. Christian churches have served as benevolent agents of welfare and catalysts of political reform. But they have also served as belligerent allies of repression and censors of human rights. Christian theology has helped to cultivate democratic ideas of equality, li
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |17 pages
Christianity and Democracy in Europe: The Christian Democratic Movement
ByRoberto Papini
chapter |15 pages
Toward a Contemporary Christian Democratic Politics in the United States
ByJames W. Skillen
chapter |19 pages
A Feminist Perspective: Christianity, Democracy, and Feminist Theology
ByRebecca S. Chopp
chapter |19 pages
The Promise of Democracy: Theological Reflections on Universality and Liminality
ByJon P. Gunnemann
chapter |19 pages
Christian Democracy, Liberation Theology, the Catholic Right, and Democracy in Latin America
ByPaul E. Sigmund
chapter |23 pages
Unmasking the Powers: Christianity, Authority, and Desacralization in Modern African Politics
ByKwame Bediako
chapter |18 pages
From Revolution to Reconstruction: The South Africa Imperative
ByCharles Villa-Vicencio
