Citizen: Faithful Discipleship in a Partisan World
A must-read for Christians struggling with the present political conversation

Citizen helps Christians find our place in the politics of the world. In these pages, Bishop Andy Doyle offers a Christian virtue ethic grounded in fresh anthropology. He offers a vision of the individual Christian within the reign of God and the life of the broader community. He adds to the conversation in both church and culture by offering a renewed theological underpinning to the complex nature of Christianity in a post-modern world.

How did we get here? Is this the way it has to be? Are there implications for conversations about politics within the church? Doyle contends that our current debates are not about one partisan narrative winning, but communities of diversity being unified by a relationship with God's grand narrative. Crafting a deep theological conversation with a unified approach to the Old and New Testament, Citizen asks, what does it truly mean to live in community?

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Citizen: Faithful Discipleship in a Partisan World
A must-read for Christians struggling with the present political conversation

Citizen helps Christians find our place in the politics of the world. In these pages, Bishop Andy Doyle offers a Christian virtue ethic grounded in fresh anthropology. He offers a vision of the individual Christian within the reign of God and the life of the broader community. He adds to the conversation in both church and culture by offering a renewed theological underpinning to the complex nature of Christianity in a post-modern world.

How did we get here? Is this the way it has to be? Are there implications for conversations about politics within the church? Doyle contends that our current debates are not about one partisan narrative winning, but communities of diversity being unified by a relationship with God's grand narrative. Crafting a deep theological conversation with a unified approach to the Old and New Testament, Citizen asks, what does it truly mean to live in community?

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Citizen: Faithful Discipleship in a Partisan World

Citizen: Faithful Discipleship in a Partisan World

by C. Andrew Doyle
Citizen: Faithful Discipleship in a Partisan World

Citizen: Faithful Discipleship in a Partisan World

by C. Andrew Doyle

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A must-read for Christians struggling with the present political conversation

Citizen helps Christians find our place in the politics of the world. In these pages, Bishop Andy Doyle offers a Christian virtue ethic grounded in fresh anthropology. He offers a vision of the individual Christian within the reign of God and the life of the broader community. He adds to the conversation in both church and culture by offering a renewed theological underpinning to the complex nature of Christianity in a post-modern world.

How did we get here? Is this the way it has to be? Are there implications for conversations about politics within the church? Doyle contends that our current debates are not about one partisan narrative winning, but communities of diversity being unified by a relationship with God's grand narrative. Crafting a deep theological conversation with a unified approach to the Old and New Testament, Citizen asks, what does it truly mean to live in community?


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781640652019
Publisher: Church Publishing, Incorporated
Publication date: 02/17/2020
Pages: 272
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

C. Andrew Doyle, the ninth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Texas, summarizes his autobiography in six words: "Met Jesus on pilgrimage; still walking." He is author of Vocātiō, Unabashedly Episcopalian, Orgullosamente Episcopal, A Generous Community, and The Jesus Heist. He lives in Houston, Texas.

Table of Contents

Foreword Cynthia Briggs Kittredge ix

Introduction: Engaging an Apathetic Christian Citizen xiii

Chapter 1 A Birth Narrative 1

Chapter 2 Our Beloved Civil Religion 15

Chapter 3 A Frame for Christian Citizenship 25

Chapter 4 A Garden Social Imaginary 35

Chapter 5 Rejection of Dominion Politics 43

Chapter 6 Prophetic Citizenship 55

Chapter 7 A Differentiated Wilderness Society 67

Chapter 8 The Rise of King and Prophet 77

Chapter 9 A Step into God's Story 93

Chapter 10 A Different Destiny 105

Chapter 11 A Decolonized Citizenship 115

Chapter 12 The Story of the Disinherited 125

Chapter 13 The Hive Lens 135

Chapter 14 Vineyard, Sword, and Cross 149

Chapter 15 The State's Accountability to God 163

Chapter 16 A Tabling Christian Citizenship 177

Conclusion: No Pleasant Valley Sunday 191

Acknowledgments 197

Notes 199

Bibliography 237

About the Author 249

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From the Publisher

“An alternative to both apathy and anger, Citizen is a call to discover civic hope. ‘Follow Jesus,’ Bishop Doyle urges in a winsome and compelling way, and you’ll find yourself mending God’s garden—God’s home—that is our shared world.”

—Miroslav Volf, director of the Yale Center for Faith & Culture


“A keen-eyed theological analysis of where we are today as Christians.”

—Stanley Hauerwas, Gilbert T. Rowe Professor Emeritus of Divinity and Law, Duke Divinity School

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