FAITH & FREEDOM: HOW THE MISSIONARY PRINCIPLE FACILITATES POLITICAL FREEDOM

The modern missionary movement devotes its energies to personal and group evangelism, and strains to avoid ties with political movements. Yet, up until the modern er, missions work was facilitated by political powers. Now, in the era when political freedom has seen its greatest advantage missions is moving farther away from its historic partner. Meanwhile many disciples of missionaries are transforming their countries through new political movements, facilitated by their faith.

Faith & Freedom: How the missionary principle facilitates political freedom, traces the roots of modern democracy to Christian theological movements, and then follows the trail back to the present, where missions may be taking a new turn - abandoning the concepts of political freedom it founded.

Missionaries representing 24 countries took part in the research for Faith & Freedom Together with historical and current events research, Faith & Freedom will give you a new perspective on the role of the missionary principle through history and the modern world; and why missionaries may be the most important front-line force for the global advancement of freedom and democracy. Faith & Freedom provides insight on issues like:

Faith as the father of freedom
Why free countries are abandoning their heritage of faith
How missions movements facilitate democracy, and
What the church can do to protect the integrity of missions, and advance the heritage of freedom.

You'll also get a first-hand perspective from missionaries representing 24 countries on why they avoid, or participate in their host country's politics.

“What a Biblical, provocative and revolutionary book! I’m glad someone finally said it! And Tom Terry says it with freshness and insight. This is a book that will make some angry, others cheer and everybody think. This is a book that could radically change the church and the church’s mission to the world and it’s one you don’t want to miss(Steve Brown, Key Life Ministries, professor at Reformed Theological Seminary).

"Tom Terry has brought to light a real and measurable cause-and-effect historical link between the missionary movement and the development of governments where political liberty has a fair shot at success. Terry's insightful analysis is a breath of fresh air in a journalistic environment cut off from reality by the intellectually closed vault of political correctness." (K.G. Powderly Jr. Author of One Faith-Many Transitions: Worldviews in Church History).

“Faith and freedom, like religion and politics, are fraternal twins. They form one side of the same coin. Our Founding Fathers believed that religion was necessary for our political experiment to prosper. In his book, Tom Terry addresses the important interrelationship between these twin pillars of our society” (Mathew D. Staver, B.A., M.A., J.D. President and General Counsel of Liberty Counsel).

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