American Providence: A Nation with a Mission

"Webb nicely shows that, however much they try to distance themselves from the doctrine of Providence, theologians and politicians cannot avoid the providential task of reading the signs of the times... American Providence is based upon a number of insights concerning the relationship Christianity, American democracy, and globalism...Webb makes a persuasive case against both the prevailing secular ethos, which continues to embrace the untenable anthropology of Enlightenment liberalism, and a Christian ecclesiocentrism, which moves God from the global, historical stage to the splendid isolation of the Church's internally focused story and practice....Webb is correct that we must read the signs of the times....I will recommend his book not only because it reveals how essential the doctrine of Providence is for public life today, but because it offers an example of the dangerous corruptions to which it is always prone." - Political Theology