What Would An Ideal Polity Look Like From a Christian Perspective?

There is no ideal polity, at least not in the way most Westerners would think about the matter. Following in the Greek tradition of Plato and Aristotle, democratic Westerners think in terms of one constitutional structure versus another, as in “Give us democracy, not monarchy!”

Jonathan Leeman, a member of Capitol Hill Baptist Church, is the editorial director for 9Marks and the author of Church Membership: How the World Knows Who Represents Jesus and Church Discipline: How the Church Protects the Name of Jesus (both Crossway, April 2012).