- Knowing how to behave is more important than knowing what position to adopt
- Cultivate Christian political reticence
- Distinguish the different debates
- Avoid dichotomous thinking and recognize the many possible positions
- Go beyond simplistic moralism in the Christian perspective on corruption
- Distinguish between an ideal and the carrier of that ideal
Thursday, December 15, 2016
6 Principles for Christian Political Engagement
I don't know how I haven't come across it before but the Lausanne publication, Global Analysis, looks to be a very useful Evangelical publication with high quality content you wont find anywhere else. I mustn't spend my day trawling through back issues, as tempting as that may be, but may I recommend to you a helpful article on Christians facing political crisis in Brazil over the possibly-corrupt impeachment of a possibly-corrupt president? The six principles, which are enlarged upon in detail in the article, are equally applicable to other contexts, they are:
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