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Faith Seeking Freedom: Libertarian Christian Answers to Tough Questions Kindle Edition

by Norman Horn (Author), Doug Stuart (Author), Kerry Baldwin (Author), Format: Kindle Edition
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Discussing Christian faith and politics is tough. If you’re tired of the typical left/right answers that sound like they were pulled from last night’s cable news, then you need a new way of thinking about faith and politics. This book will help you take your political conversations to the next level.

In Faith Seeking Freedom, the Libertarian Christian Institute has gathered together some of the brightest minds at the intersection of Christianity and libertarianism to collect brief but thoughtful answers to over a hundred questions frequently posed to liberty-loving believers.

In this book, you will find answers to questions like:
• Should Christians care about politics?
• What does God have to say about government?
• What makes somebody a libertarian?
• Why are property rights so important?
• And many more!
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08LDZMP8M
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Libertarian Christian Institute Press (Nov. 10 2020)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 447 KB
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 144 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1733658440
  • Customer Reviews:
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  1. Doug Stuart

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    Doug Stuart is CEO of the Libertarian Christian Institute. He holds an MDiv from Biblical Seminary, and his writing and speaking focus on challenging the status quo. Doug became a full-fledged libertarian because Christians can defend liberty as a necessary aspect of loving others and defending the rights of the oppressed. Doug currently lives with his wife and three children in Lancaster, PA, where he freelances as a graphic designer and video producer. He has served as a deacon at an evangelical church, where he has also taught classes on film and culture, evangelism, faith and economics, and non-violence.

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    Dick Clark is a committee legal counsel for the Nebraska Legislature and an attorney in private practice specializing in firearms law. He holds a B.A. in English with minor studies in philosophy from Auburn University. After serving as librarian of the Ludwig von Mises Institute for three years, he completed his J.D. degree from Suffolk University Law School in Boston, Massachusetts. After law school, he moved to Nebraska to work as a policy advisor to Governor Dave Heineman. He has served as director of research at the Platte Institute for Economic Research and the Institute for Economic Inquiry at Creighton University.

    He is the author of two short books, Fighting Back: Libertarian Essays on Resisting the State and On the Ticket: A Political Outsider’s Look at the Election Ballot in the United States. His articles and essays have been published at LibertarianStandard.com, LewRockwell.com, and Mises.org. Dick’s second greatest blessing after salvation is his wife Justina, with whom he is raising three children in Lincoln, Nebraska. He serves as a deacon at his Southern Baptist church. Besides faith, family, and work, Dick enjoys shooting, hunting, playing violin, mandolin, and guitar, and finding time for woodworking in his workshop.

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    Kerry is an independent researcher and writer with a B.A. in Philosophy from Arizona State University. In addition to the articles and podcasts she has on her website, MereLiberty.com, she's also a regular contributor for the Libertarian Christian Institute.

    Her writing focuses on libertarian philosophy and reformed theology and aimed at the educated layperson; challenging readers to rethink prevailing paradigms in politics, theology, and culture. She is a confessionally Reformed Christian orthodox Presbyterian in the tradition of J. Gresham Machen (1881 – 1937), an outspoken libertarian and defender of Christian orthodoxy.

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Vinicius Batista Borges
5.0 out of 5 stars Melhor livro para quem cansou ser escravo do sistema.
Reviewed in Brazil on July 19, 2024
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Aqui você começará a entender o pq o sistema quer que "os cristãos" continuem sendo seus adoradores.
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Rick Doogie
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Reviewed in the United States on April 9, 2021
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I just finished reading Faith Seeking Freedom. The authors did a great job touching on all the libertarian basics that might come to a Christian's mind! I'm a 67 year old who has been an atheist and a strong libertarian (let's call me voluntaryist) since my mid 20s. When I preach libertarian principles to my Christian friends and family, I can see it in their eyes, "why listen to this heathen"? I'm going to give my copy of "Faith Seeking Freedom" to my youngest sister who is a strong Catholic and libertarian-leaning.
Sharing "Faith Seeking Freedom" will do more than any conversation we could have, because there won't be that barrier between the "faithful" and the "faithless". I have two other close friends who are strong Christians and seem to lean libertarian when I make a comment or post something on Facebook, so I just ordered two more copies of Faith Seeking Freedom from Amazon. I'll probably need to buy more copies if I get positive reactions from these three fence-sitting almost-libertarians.
After a good 50 years of proselytizing my a-religious and a-political views, I conclude that those who preach need to focus on the minds that have come halfway or at least part-way to our principles. "Faith Seeking Freedom" perfect for that purpose. Most other libertarian primers are hundreds of pages too long and don't take a Christian moral perspective.
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About god for kids
5.0 out of 5 stars Very wide in the content it covers. Very helpful
Reviewed in the United States on January 16, 2021
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This book is great in its intentions. In most cases it is able to deliver the results that those intentions set out. For those who ae proselytizing a ideological movement, having pre thought through Answers to FAQ is very helpful.

While each question is not able to be thorough, they are very economically and sufficient in getting to the meat of the argument. Each chapter of this book could easily be a full book in and of itself. The irony of the book is that most of the answers boil down to "free markets beat out government in every area of life." So towards the end it might seem redundant but it shows a level of consistency in the libertarian movement.

Personally, as a very reasoned and rational person I love the libertarian philosophy of politics, because it follows the data and is principled. A true biblical government needs a principled theory to stand on, instead of the constantly compromising and moving leftward perpetually that the Democratic and Republican party.
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Edwin
5.0 out of 5 stars Concise, organized, informative, powerful.
Reviewed in the United States on November 11, 2020
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As a Libertarian, one of my biggest challenges is keeping from rambling and being overly thorough in response to questions I receive. It’s just in my nature to rant and go on and on about different topics and find myself running into trouble staying focused and ultimately end up confusing people.

Faith Seeking Freedom is an excellent resource that I am recommending to all my friends because, unlike myself, it provides clear, simple, straightforward answers to a wide variety of questions I have been asked.

This book has helped me articulate my beliefs and reasons for those beliefs in a concise and more effective manner.
The Q&A format allows you to easily locate specific topics.
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Melissa DeGroot
4.0 out of 5 stars Give me Liberty . . .or Jesus.
Reviewed in the United States on November 29, 2020
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At a most opportune moment in history, where Christians are questioning the very fabric of governance that is on full display through our federal and state mandates during this pandemic, authors Horn, Stuart, Baldwin and Clark deign to answer what is dancing through many of our minds: are we truly free, here and now? Depending on what state you live in may determine your answer. As Liz Lemon so aptly sighed, "Blerg."

More to the point, this lovely, short primer, "Faith Seeking Freedom," outlines many of the top questions and answers from a Christian Libertarian perspective that tickle the dabbler's fancies. Topics covered, but not limited to, are:
-Capitalism
-Morals and Ethics
-Nationalism
-Immigration
-Abortion
-Environmentalism, and so on.

The great contributions of this book are the comport, general answers that help those who know little, or nothing at all, of Christian Libertarianism. Better yet are the resources at the end of each chapter for further, more extensive reading on each topic.

As a novice to Libertarianism myself, this book was eye-opening and helped build better scaffolding to their ideology that so often confused me. The Non-Aggression Principle was better explained and dove-tailed into all of the various topics. But before any other novice like me believes Libertarians are abject pacifists or lofty conservatives in more capitalist clothing, take a look at this book for a better understanding.

At their behest, the authors invite readers to ask more questions. One that might be helpful for further discussion is; What truly distinguishes Christian conservatives from Christian Libertarians, philosophically, historically, and perhaps, theologically? One can guess a little if they follow the NAP through. However, having it explicated and unpacked might help those who find themselves confused and on the fence (Ahem, like me).

As a theologically-trained deaconess in The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, I don't necessarily have any major problems with the authors' theological excursuses. I read into their humility and heard well they do not have all of the answers. They rely on some steady tenets of the faith which form their worldviews, such as Original Sin, Repentance, and Justification. Also, their understanding of the natural law, that which is already written on our hearts, takes precedent before any notions of creating a utopia with political philosophies.

Because we have an ongoing tension in our present American reality, with free markets and regulations, sin and pride, ownership and the serfdom of the welfare state, it is difficult to see how things might be different, or change, in a peaceable way as the authors hope. If we can piecemeal the several examples they give from different countries and at different eras, God grant it! Especially as more Christians read and chew on the concepts and philosophies this book discusses.

It was an honor and a privilege to read and review this book, and I hope to see the authors build more on an already good foundation; giving rise to a much needed discussion in a time where freedoms are seemingly fleeting and at an unprecedented rate--perhaps at the same rate where Christ is nowhere to be heard in our individual and, sadly, corporate confessions. God bless this book and may it be a help to the Church at large to see Liberty as a direct gift from God.
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