Evangelicals in the Public Square: Four Formative Voices

Although history shows that evangelicals have consistently engaged in politics, the pattern of their engagement has been checkered. Evangelicals in the Public Square offers a brief history of evangelical political thought over the past fifty years, assessing the theological, political, and ethical reflections of four key founders of evangelical political perspectives: Carl F.H. Henry, Abraham Kuyper, Francis Schaeffer, and John Howard Yoder. Beyond this review, Budziszewski recommends that the evangelical political cause be informed by the tradition of natural law. Expert respondents – David Weeks, William Edgar, John Bolt, Ashley Woodiwiss, and Jean Bethke Elshtain – offer perceptive commentary on the evangelical thinkers under review.