Jesus for President!<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"All at once, gathering on my desk of books, is a four-volume collection about public issues -- and I could call this post the four evangelical horsemen\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/2008\/02\/20\/jesus-for-president\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Jesus for President!\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"All at once, gathering on my desk of books, is a four-volume collection about public issues -- and I could call this post the four evangelical horsemen\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/2008\/02\/20\/jesus-for-president\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Jesus Creed\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2008-02-20T05:19:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=jescre-20&l=ur2&o=1\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Scot McKnight\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Scot McKnight\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/2008\/02\/20\/jesus-for-president\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/2008\/02\/20\/jesus-for-president\/\",\"name\":\"Jesus for President!\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2008-02-20T05:19:09+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2008-02-20T05:19:09+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/#\/schema\/person\/5919e847c58ffe6efb5899fb61797252\"},\"description\":\"All at once, gathering on my desk of books, is a four-volume collection about public issues -- and I could call this post the four evangelical horsemen\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/2008\/02\/20\/jesus-for-president\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/2008\/02\/20\/jesus-for-president\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/2008\/02\/20\/jesus-for-president\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Jesus for President!\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/\",\"name\":\"Jesus Creed\",\"description\":\"Scot McKnight on Jesus and orthodox faith in the 21st century\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/#\/schema\/person\/5919e847c58ffe6efb5899fb61797252\",\"name\":\"Scot McKnight\",\"description\":\"Scot McKnight is a recognized authority on the New Testament, early Christianity, and the historical Jesus. McKnight, author of more than fifty books, is the Professor of New Testament at Northern Seminary in Lombard, IL.\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/author\/scotmcknight\/\"}]}<\/script>\n","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Jesus for President!","description":"All at once, gathering on my desk of books, is a four-volume collection about public issues -- and I could call this post the four evangelical horsemen","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/2008\/02\/20\/jesus-for-president\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Jesus for President!","og_description":"All at once, gathering on my desk of books, is a four-volume collection about public issues -- and I could call this post the four evangelical horsemen","og_url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/2008\/02\/20\/jesus-for-president\/","og_site_name":"Jesus Creed","article_published_time":"2008-02-20T05:19:09+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=jescre-20&l=ur2&o=1"}],"author":"Scot McKnight","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Scot McKnight","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/2008\/02\/20\/jesus-for-president\/","url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/2008\/02\/20\/jesus-for-president\/","name":"Jesus for President!","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/#website"},"datePublished":"2008-02-20T05:19:09+00:00","dateModified":"2008-02-20T05:19:09+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/#\/schema\/person\/5919e847c58ffe6efb5899fb61797252"},"description":"All at once, gathering on my desk of books, is a four-volume collection about public issues -- and I could call this post the four evangelical horsemen","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/2008\/02\/20\/jesus-for-president\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/2008\/02\/20\/jesus-for-president\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/2008\/02\/20\/jesus-for-president\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Jesus for President!"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/","name":"Jesus Creed","description":"Scot McKnight on Jesus and orthodox faith in the 21st century","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/#\/schema\/person\/5919e847c58ffe6efb5899fb61797252","name":"Scot McKnight","description":"Scot McKnight is a recognized authority on the New Testament, early Christianity, and the historical Jesus. McKnight, author of more than fifty books, is the Professor of New Testament at Northern Seminary in Lombard, IL.","url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/author\/scotmcknight\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}

{"id":3931,"date":"2008-02-20T00:19:09","date_gmt":"2008-02-20T05:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/jesuscreed\/2008\/02\/20\/jesus-for-president\/"},"modified":"2008-02-20T00:19:09","modified_gmt":"2008-02-20T05:19:09","slug":"jesus-for-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/2008\/02\/20\/jesus-for-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesus for President!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

All at once, gathering on my desk of books, is a four-volume collection about public issues \u2014 and I could call this post the four evangelical horsemen riding into the American scene with ideas about how Jesus can help our politics. Here they are:
\nShane Claiborne, along with Chris Haw, have written a brand new book called Jesus for President<\/a> $\"\"$ <\/em>. When Publisher\u2019s Weekly<\/em> calls this the \u201cmust-read election-year book for Christian Americans,\u201d it is worth getting some attention on the blog. The subtitle is politics for ordinary radicals and it\u2019s got all kinds of cool things \u2026 too many to name, but I have to mention one: instead of a normal listed bibliography, they\u2019ve got pictures of books on a shelf with the titles and authors on the spines of the books. It\u2019s cool. Jesus is the Ultimate Radical and the authors push back against Constantinianism. Classic anabaptist, community life, be an alternative community \u2026 Shane Claiborne kind of stuff. I predict this will be a potent book for the next few months or longer.
\nRonald J. Sider\u2019s newest book is called The Scandal of Evangelical Politics<\/a> $\"\"$ <\/em>. His subtitle: Why are Christians missing the chance to really change the world? Sider\u2019s complaint is that evangelicals have not constructed a biblical framework for social engagement. This veteran counter-cultural evangelical statesman brings it all together in this book, and once again I think this book will make a big impact. What is the problem? Christians have compromised when entering the political fray. Everything we\u2019ve ever had from Sider is found here: an even-handed vision of how Christians can engage society, politics and cultural in a way that is true to Jesus.
\nTony Campolo has now brought out a citizen\u2019s guide to faith and politics: Red Letter Christians<\/a> $\"\"$ <\/em>. 20 chapters; global issues and hot-button issues and economic issues and government issues. Once again, all addressed through the lens \u2014 and one is here reminded of McLaren\u2019s book Everything Must Change<\/em> \u2014 of Jesus\u2019 teachings, those red letter verses in the Bible. Full of stories; aware of sociological studies; engaged with culture; this book is vintage Campolo. Tony tells his own story in this book about how he himself changed from being a nationalist to a Red Letter Christian.
\nFinally, Jim Wallis\u2019 new book, The Great Awakening<\/a> $\"\"$ <\/em>, needs to be mentioned here to round off our four apocalyptic evangelical democrat horsemen. I didn\u2019t like Jim\u2019s last book, God\u2019s Politics<\/em>, because it was too much of a scrapbook of where he\u2019d been and what he\u2019d said. The Great Awakening<\/em> is a true book, in vintage Wallis line, but this one is about the revival of people with moral courage seek common ground to speak into the Western world with biblical prophetic courage. Like Campolo, he\u2019s addressing the serious issues of our day.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"