Resurrecting the Idea of a Christian Society

In America today, is a Christian society possible? Is it even desirable? Yes and yes, says R. R. Reno, editor of First Things and one of America's leading scholars of religion and politics. In fact, he warns, without a restoration of America as a Christian society, our culture will rapidly descend into an unhappy, shallow, lawless, and brutal place, divided more than ever between rich and poor and vulnerable to elite demagogues. Taking his cue from T. S. Eliot's famous essay The Idea of a Christian Society, Reno looks at how Christianity has been unseated as America's moral centerpoint-- and the terrible price we have paid. In Resurrecting the Idea of a Christian Society, you'll learn: Why America's growing underclass is the direct result of America's receding faith How secular liberalism inevitably divides society into a super-successful elite and the dysfunctional and dependent many Why government will continue to take over more and more of our lives--unless Christianity's public influence is restored Why humane values we take for granted will no longer hold sway in a dechristianized society The truth about the American Dream--what it really is and how it can be redeemed Reno's bracing analysis is no counsel of despair, but rather a call to courage and action. America was once--and needs to be again--a Christian society; and this book is the first step to understanding how to make it happen.