The Mighty And The Almighty (eBook, ePUB)

How Political Leaders Do God
Redaktion: Spencer, Nick

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

For a secular age, we have a lot of religious politicians.

Theresa May, Vladimir Putin, Angela Merkel, even Donald Trump all profess Christianity, as did Obama, Brown, Sarkozy, Bush and Blair before them. Indeed, it is striking how many Christian Presidents and Prime Ministers have assumed the global stage over recent years. In spite of Alastair Campbell's oft- (and mis-) quoted line, 'We don't do God', it seems like we definitely do.

But how sincere is this faith? Is not much of it simply window-dressing for the electorate, paste-on haloes to calm the moral majority? Conversely, how dangerous is it? If we elect our politicians to do our democratic will, do we really want them praying to God for advice?

The Mighty and the Almighty looks at some of the biggest political figures of the past forty years - from Thatcher and Reagan, through Mandela and Clinton, to May and Trump - and looks at how they 'did God'. Did their faith actually shape their politics, and if so, how? Or did their politics shape their faith? And does it matter if it did?

In an age when religion is more important on the global stage than anyone would have predicted fifty years ago, this book will tell you everything you want to know, and some things you won't, about how the Mighty get on with the Almighty.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Biteback Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. April 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781785902628
• Artikelnr.: 48077218

Autorenporträt

Nick Spencer: Nick Spencer is director of studies at the public theology think tank Theos. His books include Freedom and Order: History, Politics and the English Bible (Hodder & Stoughton, 2011) and Athiests: The Origin of the Species (Bloomsbury Continuum, 2014).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements 3
Contributors 4
Introduction Nick Spencer 5
Margaret Thatcher (1979-1990) Nick Spencer 8
Ronald Reagan (1981-1988) Nick Spencer 15
Václav Havel (1989-2002, 1993-2003) Natan Mladin 26
Bill Clinton (1993-2001) Simon Perfect 36
Nelson Mandela (1994-1999) Paul Bickley 49
John Howard (1996-2007) Clare Purtill 58
Tony Blair (1997-2007) Andrew Connell 64
Mary McAleese (1997-2011) Elizabeth Oldfield 74
Vladimir Putin (Russia, 2000-08, 2012- ) Ben Ryan 81
George W. Bush (2001-2009) Hannah Malcolm 88
Angela Merkel (2005- ) Nick Spencer 97
Ellen Johnson Sirlief (2006- ) Maddy Fry 104
Gordon Brown (2007-2010) Paul Bickley 111
Kevin Rudd (2007-2010) Andrew Connell 119
Nicolas Sarkozy (2007-2012) Ben Ryan 128
Lee Myung-bak (2008-13) Henry van Oosterom 137
Fernando Lugo (2008-2012) Ben Ryan 147
Barack Obama (2009-2017) Simon Perfect 156
Goodluck Jonathan (2010-15) Maddy Fry 169
Viktor Orbán (Hungary, 2010- ) Joseph Ewing 176
David Cameron (2010-16) Nick Spencer 185
Tony Abbott (2013-2015) Gillian Madden 195
Theresa May (2016-) Nick Spencer 203
Conclusion Nick Spencer 211
Notes
Bibliography
Index