Jonathan Chaplin

Christian Hospitality and Muslim Immigration in an Age of Fear

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“A pathbreaking, theologically rich Christian intervention into contemporary public debates over the place of Muslims in western societies. . . . Matthew Kaemingk has pulled off a feat many would have thought impossible.”

Citizenship Without Illusions

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“The product of seasoned wisdom won from years of deep Christian reflection on politics, David Koyzis's new book is a timely gift to a church increasingly lured away from gospel faithfulness by pernicious political illusions and dangerous idolatries. Koyzis has crafted an accessible, insightful, and practical account of democratic citizenship as a biblical call to discern and enact public justice in whatever setting we find ourselves, from the local community through the national level to the larger horizons of the global community. Both ordinary believers paralyzed by today's political forces of darkness and tempted to retreat to the private sphere, and longtime practitioners beaten down by our mounting tribal acrimonies, will be inspired to embrace the vocation of citizenship with renewed vision and hope. An uplifting tract for our troubled times.”

We Answer to Another

Theology

“Liberal societies, regarding themselves as premised on the generative moral autonomy of the individual, have a constitutive problem with authority--freedom needs no justification, only authority. In this highly illuminating, wide-ranging, and exceptionally clear book, David Koyzis shows how this view not only destabilizes authority but actually diminishes our humanity. Authority is not autonomy but 'responsible agency,' exercised individually and corporately in many diverse human settings--'offices'--that arise from our being created in God's image. Recovering authority as 'answering to another' makes us more, not less, human.”