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Synopsis
America’s two greatest strengths—her liberal democratic culture and her free-market economy—have made her a global superpower. But left unchecked, these two strengths can become great cultural weaknesses, sowing selfishness, recklessness, and apathy. In Resurrecting the Idea of a Christian Society, theologian R. R. Reno argues that America needs a renewal of Christian ideals—ideals that encourage self-sacrifice, responsibility, and solidarity. Drawing on T.S. Eliot’s 1940 essay “The Idea of a Christian Society,” Reno shows how Christianity encourages “an abiding ambition for higher things” and a “moral vision” that can strengthen communities and transform America into a truly great nation.
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About the Author
R. R. RENO, the editor of First Things, a journal of religion and public life, serves on the board of advisers of the Edmund Burke Foundation, the sponsor or the 2019 National Conservatism Conference. After earning his doctorate in religious studies from Yale, he taught theology at Creighton University for twenty years. His previous books include Genesis: A Theological Commentary, Fighting the Noonday Devil, and Resurrecting the Idea of a Christian Society. He lives with his wife in New York City.
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In America today, is a Christian society possible? Is it even desirable? Yes and yes, says R. R. Reno, editor of First Things and one of America's leading scholars of religion and politics. In fact, he warns, without a restoration of America as a Christian society, our culture will rapidly descend into an unhappy, shallow, lawless, and brutal place, divided more than ever between rich and poor and vulnerable to elite demagogues. Taking his cue from T. S. Eliot's famous essay The Idea of a Christian Society, Reno looks at how Christianity has been unseated as America's moral centerpoint-- and the terrible price we have paid. In Resurrecting the Idea of a Christian Society, you'll learn: Why America's growing underclass is the direct result of America's receding faith How secular liberalism inevitably divides society into a super-successful elite and the dysfunctional and dependent many Why government will continue to take over more and more of our lives--unless Christianity's public influence is restored Why humane values we take for granted will no longer hold sway in a dechristianized society The truth about the American Dream--what it really is and how it can be redeemed Reno's bracing analysis is no counsel of despair, but rather a call to courage and action. America was once--and needs to be again--a Christian society; and this book is the first step to understanding how to make it happen.From the Inside Flap
In America today, is a Christian society possible? Is it even desirable?
Yes and yes, says R. R. Reno, editor of First Things and one of America’s leading scholars of religion and politics. In fact, he warns, without a restoration of America as a Christian society, our culture will rapidly descend into an unhappy, shallow, lawless, and brutal place, divided more than ever between rich and poor and vulnerable to elite demagogues.
Taking his cue from T. S. Eliot’s famous essay The Idea of a Christian Society, Reno looks at how Christianity has been unseated as America’s moral centerpoint— and the terrible price we have paid.
In Resurrecting the Idea of a Christian Society, you’ll learn:
Why America’s growing underclass is the direct result of America’s receding faith
How secular liberalism inevitably divides society into a super-successful elite and the dysfunctional and dependent many
Why government will continue to take over more and more of our lives—unless Christianity’s public influence is restored
Why humane values we take for granted will no longer hold sway in a dechristianized society
The truth about the American Dream—what it really is and how it can be redeemed
Reno's bracing analysis is no counsel of despair, but rather a call to courage and action. America was once—and needs to be again—a Christian society; and this book is the first step to understanding how to make it happen.
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