Christianity and Politics: A Brief Guide to the History by C.C. Pecknold
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Read this book after reading a review for it by Dr. Peter Leithart. It is a history of the Eucharist and the mystical body of Christ and how this has been misapplied and migrated from the Christian people universally to ethnicity and nation states. We now call ourselves Irish, or American, or Texan before we would identify ourselves as Christian. Nationalism is a modern day attempt to see an ethno culture as a mystical body using Christian ideas, and that we need to deconstruct our enlightenment ideas to return to a Christian community centered around Word and Eucharist.
The water of baptism should be thicker than blood. Definitely will have to visit some of the bibliography.
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