The role of the church in politics has been the subject of heated debate in the past few years, in America and elsewhere.

Now prominent Dutch theologian H. M Kuitert has written this provocative book on the subject, in which he argues that while the Christian faith has a direct bearing on politics, the institutional church acts to its detriment when it makes political pronouncements and intervenes in the democratic sphere may do no more than duplicate what others are doing (and often doing better)

Everything is politics but politics is not everything Politics, Kuitert, cannot provide all the solutions to the present problems are political.  Challenging the church to return what it does best, he reasserts the classic concern of the Christian church: the proclamation of the Kingdom of God.