Slaying Leviathan (Sunshine - paperback)

Author: Glenn S. Sunshine

ISBN: 9781952410727

Binding: paperback

Section: Political-Science

Leviathan is rising again, and the first weapon we must recover is the longstanding Christian tradition of resisting governmental overreach. In Slaying Leviathan, historian Glenn S. Sunshine surveys some of the stories and key elements of Christian political thought from Augustine to the Declaration of Independence. Specifically, the book introduces theories of limited government that were synthesized into a coherent political philosophy by John Locke. Locke, of course, influenced the American founders and was, like us, fighting against the spirit of Leviathan in his day. But his is only one of the many stories in this book.