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How to escape the bunker

Democracy is in decline and Christians seem unable or unwilling to rescue it. Read more in Mark Hamilton’s new book Escaping the Bunker – Democracy Needs Christianity – So What? Available for ordering now. Only available through Sowhat.ie

CONTENTS

 Introduction                                                                         5

Section 1: Democracy, Christianity and Christians             9

  1. Understanding the challenge 10
  2. Understanding democracy 16
  3. Can Christians be of help? 23
  4. Understanding the Christian worldview 29

Section 2: Overcoming the barriers                                     37

  1. Reasons to hang back 38
  2. Cultural change is never easy 45
  3. Knowing where you stand 50
  4. Quality leadership 56

Section 3: Good soil                                                             65

  1. The roots of democracy are essentially Christian 66
  2. The modern secular state’s view of itself 73

Section 4: Democracy under fire                                         79

  1. Secularism pushes religion aside 80
  2. Truth in the news 87
  3. Surviving challenges from within 94

Section 5: Christianity at your service                                   101

  1. Helping to support the foundations 102
  2. Addressing key needs of democracy 108
  3. Christianity’s useful hidden assets 116

Section 6: Problems and solutions                                         125

  1. The myth of progress 126
  2. Sustaining personal freedoms 133
  3. The migrant crisis 139
  4. The book of nature 145

In conclusion                                                                        158

  1. The job that needs to be done 158

 

Endnotes                                                                                168