In this important study John de Gruchy examines the relationship between the Christian churches and the development of democracy, from the earliest days of Christendom to the late twentieth century, and explores the ways in which the Christianity of the future can achieve a theology for a just world order.
In this important study John de Gruchy examines the historic and contemporary roles of Christianity in the development of democracy. Distinguishing between, yet relating, democracy to the prophetic vision of a just society, he traces the gestation of modern democracy in medieval Christendom, and then describes the virtual breakdown of the relationship as democracy becomes the polity of modernity.
