Life, Marriage, and Religious Liberty: What Belongs to God, What Belongs to Caesar

The group of influential thinkers contributing to this book, each speaking from their respective and distict theological, vocational, and ecclesiastical backgrounds, provide a symphonic, up-to-date commentary on the three primary principles affirmed in The Manhattan Declaration. The chapters, while substantive and convicional, ar best described as succinct and readable. The authors seek to be charitable to those with whom they differ, mdeling kindness, humility, and civility. Genuine civility and kindness are much needed in our polarized and fragmented culture. Civility, rightly understood, is not merely a diplomatic posture nor a code of conduct, but a virtue. The volume is thus a chorus, which seeks to "hold fact what is good" (I Thess. 5:21) while faithfully "holding fast to the word of life" (Phil. 2:14-16).