Strickland's the Transformational Imperative

Strickland identifies the core of Christendom as a transformational imperative. In its first thousand years Christianity passed through two distinct phases, he writes. One where politics was only tenuously connected to Christians, and one where politics was everywhere among Christians. The Book of Acts shows how early Christians saw God as imminent, says Strickland. Strictly temporal concerns were, however, secondary matters: action here, action now, to bring the world closer to God.