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Gary Scott Smith is Professor of History and Coordinator of the Humanities Core at Grove City College in Grove City, Pennsylvania.
Œuvres de Gary Scott Smith
God and Politics: Four Views on the Reformation of Civil Government : Theonomy, Principled Pluralism, Christian… (1989) — Directeur de publication — 184 exemplaires
The Seeds of Secularization: Calvinism, Culture, and Pluralism in America, 1870-1915 (1985) 30 exemplaires
Duty and Destiny: The Life and Faith of Winston Churchill (Library of Religious Biography (LRB)) (2021) 9 exemplaires
Strength for the Fight: The Life and Faith of Jackie Robinson (Library of Religious Biography (LRB)) (2022) 6 exemplaires
Confronting Life's Challenges: Worldviews, Societal Perspectives, and Ethical Issues (2012) 3 exemplaires
Suffer the Children: How We Can Help Improve the Lives of the World's Impoverished Children (2017) 2 exemplaires
Oeuvres associées
Building a Christian World View, Volume 1: God, Man, and Knowledge (1986) — Directeur de publication — 62 exemplaires
Building a Christian World View, Volume 2: The Universe, Society, and Ethics (1988) — Directeur de publication — 61 exemplaires
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Although I married into the United Methodist Church (UMC) and was a pastor’s wife for most of my adulthood, I didn’t know much about Clinton’s faith and the impact of the UMC in her life.
The very title of this book is basic Methodism: Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can. The author shows that this teaching is central to Clinton’s faith and the motivation for her work and political aspirations.
Methodism’s founder John Wesley had been disturbed that the Church of England lacked a spiritual foundation and became involved with a group decried as “Methodists” for their methodical faith life which included weekly prayer, confession, and communion. He was decried for preaching outside of the church’s walls, going to the common working people. He taught the importance of works of charity and reaching out to the suffering and imprisoned as a central response to recognizing God’s gift of grace to all. Over its history, Methodism supported public education, prohibition, worker’s rights, and social justice. The church attacked social ills including alcohol, gambling, racism, and sexism. During most of the twentieth century, this social gospel aspect of the UMC prevailed.
When Clinton left home she was exposed to new ideas, reading Kierkegaard, Bonhoeffer, Paul Tillich, Reinhardt Niebuhr, and Karl Barth. (When my husband was a seminary student, I audited classes and read them all. I was particularly impacted by Niebuhr, the class taught by a man who had been involved with the Civil Rights movement.) Clinton drifted from her Republican upbringing to a McGovern Democrat. From the start, she was drawn to working for the social good.
Throughout the book, details of Clinton’s life and career are supported by deep research. The author shares both the criticism she faced and the support she was given, her successes and her failures, her strengths and her weaknesses, evaluations of what she did right and where she went wrong.
The overall picture is of a woman of strength, faith, motivation, and intellect, an imperfect Christian and flawed politician, a victim of sexism and libel and her own fatal flaws. Clinton’s support of controversial topics has overshadowed her life-long work to support the needs of women and children.
Some evangelical Trump supporters contended that flawed and sinful people can still do God’s work, and yes, the Bible is filled with such examples. Those same voices accused Clinton of being Satan.
The failure of the Democratic party and Clinton’s political campaign had, as we know, a huge impact. The book delves into the way each candidates reached, or failed to reach, voters of faith.
Reading this book I was again made aware of how religion has infiltrated politics and the law, and how American society, while leaving organized religion, still hold religious ideals that they believe should be a part of politics. The author quotes James Madison’s Federalist No. 10, warning against the human tendency of dividing into factions that would rather fight than cooperate for the common good.
This book gave me a lot to think about.
Thanks to the publisher for a free book.… (plus d'informations)