WaPo Reviews “The Politics Of Jesus”

Faithful Democrats theologian Obery Hendricks' new book, "The Politics of Jesus," got a good review this weekend by Jon Meacham of Newsweek and the Washington Post. An excerpt:

It can do no harm to ask the question Hendricks suggests when we are
pondering policies and politics, but there is always a danger that we
may come to think our own answer to the "What Would Jesus Do?" test is
not merely our own best effort, but is in fact the only answer. We need
more humility in our public life, remembering that, for now, we see
through Saint Paul's "glass, darkly." To practice the politics of Jesus
means practicing humility, an exercise that might well begin by bearing
this story from the gospel of Mark in mind: The disciples had been
traveling to meet Jesus, debating among themselves "who should be the
greatest" — a classically political undertaking. Learning of the
bickering, Jesus would have none of it, saying: "If any man desire to
be first, the same shall be last of all, and servant of all." And so
may our politics, whether connected to the examples and words of Jesus
or of Plato or of Machiavelli, be informed by charity and grace, not by
self-righteousness. Then, and only then, will we come close, I think,
to anything like "the politics of Jesus."

WaPo reviews “The Politics of Jesus”