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Slaying Leviathan: Limited Government and Resistance in the Christian Tradition (Glenn Sunshine)
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Christians first expressed these political truths under Caesars, kings, popes, and emperors. We need them in the age of presidents.
Leviathan is rising again, and the first weapon we must recover is the longstanding Christian tradition of resisting governmental overreach. Our bloated bureaucratic state would have been unrecognizable to the Founders, and our acquiescence to its encroachments on liberty would have infuriated them. But here is the point: our Leviathan would not have surprised them. They were well acquainted with the tendency of governments to turn tyrannical: “Eternal vigilance is the price we pay for liberty.”
In Slaying Leviathan , historian Glenn S. Sunshine surveys some of the stories and key elements of Christian political thought from Augustine to the Declaration of Independence. Specifically, the book introduces theories of limited government that were synthesized into a coherent political philosophy by John Locke. Locke, of course, influenced the American founders and was, like us, fighting against the spirit of Leviathan in his day. But his is only one of the many stories in this book.
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Slaying Leviathan
Limited Government and Resistance in the Christian Tradition
Christians first expressed these political truths under Caesars, kings, popes, and emperors. We need them in the age of presidents.
Leviathan is rising again, and the first weapon we must recover is the longstanding Christian tradition of resisting governmental overreach. Our bloated bureaucratic state would have been unrecognizable to the Founders, and our acquiescence to its encroachments on liberty would have infuriated them. But here is the point: our Leviathan would not have surprised them. They were well acquainted with the tendency of governments to turn tyrannical: “Eternal vigilance is the price we pay for liberty.”
In Slaying Leviathan , historian Glenn S. Sunshine surveys some of the stories and key elements of Christian political thought from Augustine to the Declaration of Independence. Specifically, the book introduces theories of limited government that were synthesized into a coherent political philosophy by John Locke. Locke, of course, influenced the American founders and was, like us, fighting against the spirit of Leviathan in his day. But his is only one of the many stories in this book.
Contents
- The Early Church
- Augustine
- Church, State, and the Limits of Power
- Natural Rights in the Middle Ages
- Law and Government in the Protestant Reformation
- Protestant Resistance Theory
- Resistance Theory in Britain
- Locke in Context
- The American Founders
- Epilogue
About the Author
Dr. Glenn S. Sunshine is Professor of History at Central Connecticut State University and a Senior Fellow at the Colson Center for Christian Worldview. An award-winning author, Glenn has written about history, theology, and culture. His book Why You Think the Way You Do: The Story of Western Worldviews from Rome to Home received the 2006 Acton Institute Book Grant.
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