Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PROPOSITION 1

History Is Not One Damn Thing after Another

PROPOSITION 2

The End of History Has Already Begun

PROPOSITION 3

American Hope Is a Bastard

PROPOSITION 4

Christianity Is Neither a Prostitute nor a Chaplain

PROPOSITION 5

The United States Is Not the Hope of the World

PROPOSITION 6

The United States Was Not, Is Not, and Will Not Be a Christian Nation

PROPOSITION 7

How Christian Values, and the Bible, Corrupt Christianity

PROPOSITION 8

Every Empire Falls

PROPOSITION 9

Christian Partisanship Is like a Fistfight on the Titanic

PROPOSITION 10

Hostile Forces Have a Role in the Unfolding of History

PROPOSITION 11

Christianity Is Not a Religion; Christianity Is a Politic

PROPOSITION 12

Liberal Political Puissance Is Not the Goal

PROPOSITION 13

Exemplary Political Witness Is the Goal

PROPOSITION 14

Christianity Is Not Countercultural

PROPOSITIONS 15

Christian Engagement Must Always Be Ad Hoc

Afterword

Index

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