Description
According to Dr. Fisher, wherever politics is in America, piety is not far behind, and politics and poker have a lot in common be cause both games depend on a desire for power and a strategy for achieving it.
He believes it is time to develop a new piety informed by biblical theology and a new politics informed by sane public opinion. In this lucid discussion he focuses on the subtle relation ship between Christ and culture, faith and political action, piety and politics, belief and patriotism.
Unless the churches begin to realistically examine their role in the life of the state, Wallace Fisher sees a definite head-on clash between church and state. No escapist, he proceeds to spell out the valid foundation upon which the churchman stands as he con fronts the hypocrisy involved in much of our traditional jargon about separation of church and state.
Since he is concerned chiefly with the problem of the American development of democracy, he examines closely how far we have come from the early medieval theological climate and helps us examine how we can restore Christian integrity in both ecclesiastical and political circles.
Politics, Poker, and Piety will serve as a basic tool for discussion groups and for laymen and clergymen who are seeking new ways of putting faith to work in our contemporary political society.
