Democracy After Christendom

Fostering a Christian culture is a necessary pursuit; establishing a Christian state is a misguided one. This is the thesis of James Lusk’s Democracy After Christendom. Lusk argues that ‘Christian states’ are inevitably forced to privilege one brand of the faith over others; the very predicament that led to the persecution of our Puritan forebears. It was the insight of men like Roger Williams that, as much as possible, freedom of belief and expression must be extended to all. Himself the object of religious persecution, Williams helped birth the modern democratic state.