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Another thought provoking piece from the archives of Mars Hill Audio

In this biblical-theological essay, Dr. Edmund Clowney discusses how the Church must resist the temptation to become subservient to earthly political powers and programs. This essay was originally published in the late 1980s as a rebuke to liberation theology and to certain less coherent but no less enthusiastic Christian political movements on the right.

Dr. Clowney was for many years the president of Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia (where Ken Myers studied under him), and spent his last years as one of our neighbors in Charlottesville. He died in March. Long-time readers of Christianity Today will be interested to know that one of Dr. Clowney's first writing gigs (in the 1950s) was as the pseudonymous humor columnist Eutychus, whose regular satire in the Eutychus and His Kin feature lampooned many of the more curious features of the evangelical subculture. The Politics of the Kingdom is an altogether more serious work, and is available in its original booklet form for purchase, or you may download it for free.