Comments on: The Faith of Barack Obama http://www.christandpopculture.com/featured/the-faith-of-barack-obama/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-faith-of-barack-obama Where The Christian Faith Meets The Common Knowledge of Our Age Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:10:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: The Dane http://www.christandpopculture.com/featured/the-faith-of-barack-obama/#comment-3786 The Dane Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:06:37 +0000 http://www.christandpopculture.com/?p=1047#comment-3786 Sounds like an interesting book—thanks for the review. I would however question what you point out is a central tenet of Mansfield's purpose, namely that "knowing a candidate’s faith is essential." So far as I can tell, while the intricacies of one's ideologies and worldview do shape the way one acts and interacts with the world around, those ideologies often have little to do with faith. After all, there being one faith, hope, and baptism, I obviously share the same faith with you and with Rich and with Ben and with Alan and perhaps even with Bush and Obama. Yet, our styles of governing would be far different. I might even be horrified by the different things that other believers might do, despite our sharing the same faith. This is because our ideologies inform our actions and ethics more readily than our faith does. For certain, our ideologies are shaped to some degree by the faith to which we hold, but sharing a faith does little to dictate these ideals and even our general worldview. The Danes last blog post..<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nowheresville/~3/377271808/2008_08_01_old1.php" rel="nofollow">20080828</a> Sounds like an interesting book—thanks for the review. I would however question what you point out is a central tenet of Mansfield’s purpose, namely that “knowing a candidate’s faith is essential.”

So far as I can tell, while the intricacies of one’s ideologies and worldview do shape the way one acts and interacts with the world around, those ideologies often have little to do with faith.

After all, there being one faith, hope, and baptism, I obviously share the same faith with you and with Rich and with Ben and with Alan and perhaps even with Bush and Obama. Yet, our styles of governing would be far different. I might even be horrified by the different things that other believers might do, despite our sharing the same faith.

This is because our ideologies inform our actions and ethics more readily than our faith does. For certain, our ideologies are shaped to some degree by the faith to which we hold, but sharing a faith does little to dictate these ideals and even our general worldview.

The Danes last blog post..20080828

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