The Political Meaning of Christianity: An Interpretation, by Glenn Tinder (Louisiana State University Press, 312 pp., $29.95)
One tends to be wary in approaching a book on “the political meaning of Christianity.” The genre leans to the tendentious: the temptation to fabricate transcendent justification for political positions rooted in the mundane is more than most can withstand. Wariness edges into skepticism when, as in Professor Glenn Tinder’s new book, the work takes as its starting point “the prophetic stand” and includes a section on “social transformation.” Such language prepares the reader for a leftwing catechism in which the highest truths of the Christian faith are manipulated in the service of dubious liberationist fantasies.
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