Christianity and Identity: Public Theology, Authoritarianism, and Democracy: Faith and Public Reason, Volume 1

This volume offers a public theology of democratic participation that confronts the temptation to autocracy to which much of the church has succumbed. Grounding a vision of democratic pluralism within the core of the Christian understanding of God, Christ, and the kingdom of God it argues that Christian identity creates a responsibility to stand against the rising authoritarianism of American society.

The question of identity is at the heart of Christian theology: Who are we? Who is God? Whe...