The ballot and the Bible how scripture has been used and abused in American politics and where we go from here

In June 2020, after the killing of George Floyd, President Donald Trump posed with a Bible outside St. John's Episcopal Church in Washington, DC. For many, the scene epitomized the relationship between scripture and politics: the Bible is a prop, a tool for leaders to exploit for their purpose. Schi...

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Main Author: Schiess, Kaitlyn (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Grand Rapids, Michigan : Brazos Press, a division of Baker Publishing Group, [2023]
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245 1 4 |a The ballot and the Bible :  |b how scripture has been used and abused in American politics and where we go from here /  |c Kaitlyn Schiess. 
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505 0 |a Introduction: Is that your bible? -- A city on a hill: an American legacy of Puritan biblical interpretation -- Submission and revolution: Romans 13 and American identity -- "The Bible through slave-holding spectacles": the Bible in the Civil War -- Your kingdom come: social gospel hermeneutics -- A stick of dynamite: civil rights and scripture -- Magic of the market: the hermeneutics of small government -- The late great United States: biblical eschatology in the cold war -- Prayer, politics, and personal faith: George W. Bush's and Barack Obama's use of scripture -- "Give unto Caesar what is Caesar's": evangelicals and Donald Trump -- Seek the peace and prosperity of the city: Jeremiah 29 and political theology -- Conclusion: The promise and peril of biblical references in politics. 
520 |a In June 2020, after the killing of George Floyd, President Donald Trump posed with a Bible outside St. John's Episcopal Church in Washington, DC. For many, the scene epitomized the relationship between scripture and politics: the Bible is a prop, a tool for leaders to exploit for their purpose. Schiess's book has two goals: to mine history for examples of biblical interpretation distanced enough from our own context that we might be able to see things clouding our judgment in the heat of our own debates; and to gain a rough sketch of some of the political biblical interpretation trends and traditions that have shaped America. -- Adapted from Introduction. 
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