A Higher Throne

This volume, based on the Eleventh Oak Hill Annual School of Theology, offers a conversation among those who represent a consistently orthodox evangelicalism, who see public life in relation to the Christian gospel in quite different ways, but who are committed to thinking biblically about the matter and coming to a common mind. ??* What is 'public theology'? * Does it mean the arts? * Public policy? * Party politics?

The answer is: probably all of these. Here we are dealing with a rather ill-formed topic, on which there has not been a consistent viewpoint.????*Daniel Strange*  lectures in Public Theology at Oak Hill College. He gives a summary of the state of the debate, with both historical and contemporary viewpoints.??*Kirsten Birkett* has a distinguished publishing record as a simplifier and communicator of complex ideas. She summarizes relevant aspects of the thought of probably the most significant but complex of contemporary evangelical writers, Oliver O'Donovan.??*David Field* takes us back to a great Scottish theologian of the seventeenth century, Samuel Rutherford, whose masterpiece Lex, rex which later provided a theological basis for the American Constitution was condemned in England as treasonable.??*Garry Williams* shows how contemporary theories about the cross of Christ reflect different understandings of how punishment might rightly operate, in the context of justice and law.??A sermon by *David Field* concludes the volume.??These stimulating analyses will enable readers to come to a clearer view of what Public Theology is, and how we may apply it.Read less