Robert Benne
The Paradaxical Vision is an extraordinanly level-headed and useful book. It provides something that Christians today badly need a kind of navigational chart for Christian political thinking with all of the rocks and shoals so numerous in present-day political waters, clearly marked."

-Glenn Tinder University of Massachusetts, Boston

"This is a good book that had to be written, and it is our great fortune that Pobert Berine has written it with such scholarly care, engaging lucidity, and peruate free. The tangled connections between ultimate truth and penultimate questions of the terre here untangled with great skill and imagination. The Paradoxical W summary of 'religion and society disputes of the last several dees proposal for thinking more clearly and acting more inteligent

-Richard John Neuhaus Editor in Chief, First Things

"This important volume should be read by ali interested in public thecilogy It includes a superb overview of the growing literature and a fresh account of the recent neoconservative surge that brought Catholics and Evangelicals to the center of public theological debates after decades of liberationist emphasis in the ecumenical churches and seminanes-all in his clear and persuasive style"

-Max L. Stackhouse Princeton Theological Seminary

Robert Benne is Professor of Religion at Roanoke College. Salem, Virginia. He is the author of Ordirlary Saints (Fortress Press, 1988).