Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-215) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Towards an evangelical missional political theology -- The end of evangelicalism? -- Žižek and the evangelicals : the (psycho)analysis of an ideology in crisis -- "The inerrant Bible" : the politics of the evangelical belief and practice of scripture : how it shapes us for arrogance -- "The decision for Christ" : the politics of the evangelical belief and practice of salvation : how it shapes us for duplicity -- "The Christian nation" : the politics of the evangelical belief and practice of the church in society : how it shapes us for dispassion -- Recovering the core of our politics for mission : towards an evangelical missional political theology -- Epilogue: The emerging and missional church movements : possibilities for a new faithfulness.
Summary:
Why are evangelicals perceived as arrogant, exclusivist, duplicitous, and dispasionate by the wider culture? Diagnosing its political-cultural presence via the ideological theory of Slavoj Žižek, Fitch argues that evangelicalism appears to have lost the core of its politic : Jesus Christ. In so doing its politic has become "empty." Its witness has been rendered moot. The way back to a vibrant political presence is through the corporate participation in the triune God's ongoing work in the world as founded in the Incarnation.
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