Christians, Politics, & Faithfulness

In To Change the World, James Davison Hunter argues that in general, Christians are using politics as their primary tool to further the purposes of Christianity in the world. He thinks this is true of the Christian Right, who want to save the U.S. from secularism and liberalism, the Christian Left, who oppose the Christian Right and side with the poor and the oppressed, and the Neo-Anabaptists, who reject the government but do so for political reasons. Hunter urges against all three that a faithful public Christian witness need not employ political means or achieve political ends to be biblical.