| Professor Robert Kraynak discusses democracy and political systems, and how Christians have thought about ordering political life. Kraynak, author of Christian Faith and Modern Democracy: God and Politics in the Fallen World, notes that in the second half of the twentieth century many Christians began to claim that democracy is a morally superior political system. In past eras it had been one option among many potentially prudent choices. The development is due in part to a mistaken notion about the origins of human dignity and the function of government. Kraynak explains the different notions, along with one of the oldest Christian understandings of the role of the State, which is found in Saint Augustine's exploration of the City of God and the City of Man. |
Christian Faith and Modern Democracy: God and Politics in the Fallen World (University of Notre Dame Press, 2001) |
