In the Beginning Was the Word, Not the State

“Politics,” argues theologian William T. Cavanaugh, “is a practice of the imagination.” “How does a provincial farm boy become persuaded that he must travel as a soldier to another part of the world and kill people he knows nothing about?” Cavanaugh wrote in his 2002 book, Theopolitical Imagination. “He must be convinced of the reality Read more... The post In the Beginning Was the Word, Not the State appeared first on Christianity Today.