The blog derives its name from William T. Cavanaugh’s Theopolitical Imagination, and seeks to dialog anyone interested in matters of politics, faith and culture. Much of its contents are recycled from old blogs formerly hosted elsewhere or old seminary papers.
The Life of the City
Theopolitical is an interstice of politics and theology. This blog seeks an extended conversation about what it means for the Church of God to be a pilgrim people, exiles scattered among the nations, in Tim Keller's words, a "counterculture that serves the common good."
The church is a counterculture to the degree it is faithful to Christ and sees its citizenship as belonging to heaven. As the church lives in prophetic expectation of the coming Kingdom of God, it will not be conformed to this world, but embody the world-loving otherness of Jesus.
And because we love God's world, we serve the common good. We pray for the peace of the empire. We contribute to the life of the city. We plant gardens to share with our neighbors.
So we ask the hard questions about life in the city. How do we serve the common good here, now? What kind of peace will we pray for? What kind of gardens will we plant? How can we bring others in on this conversation, and into the life of this city?
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Theopolitical 
I love the idea behind this blog. Responsibly exercing our faith in politics is a principle extremely close to my heart.
I saw that you had found my blog at http://bloodstainedink.wordpress.com. So I popped over here to look around. Gotta say, I appreciate somebody taking up a blog on the basis of Cavanaugh’s “Theopolitical Imagination.” I read the book while picking up my Masters in Historical Systematics at Wheaton College, and it has stuck with me since then.
Anyway, just wanted to say thanks for stopping by. Hope you liked what you saw.
Nick,
I see you do book reviews, and I was wondering if you would consider a review of my book The Spirit of Prophecy.
This book is politically incorrect, and yet provides many answers to questions that have eluded scholars and authors for many years.
These answers are logical, biblical and shocking to the western evangelical mindset, but that doesn’t mean they are incorrect!
If you are interested please email me with an address where I can send it.
Thanks,
Dan Knezacek