This volume inludes seven essays by the Rev. Edmund A. Opitz, a Congregational minister who spent nearly forty years at The Foundation for Economic Education. Culled from three of Opitz's earlier books -- _The Powers That Be_, _The Kingdom Without God_, and _Religion: Foundation of a Free Society_ -- the essays include a debate between Opitz and the Rev. John C. Bennett of Union Theological Seminary; the "Roots of Amercian Liberty" in biblical principles; the conflicts between New Testament ethics and the "welfare state"; two devastating pieces on "social action" and the "Social Gospel"; a similarly devastating piece on "The Churches and the United Nations"; and the short piece from which the present volume takes its title, "The Libertarian Theology of Freedom." This volume will be of interest not only to Christians but to anyone who wants to know what Christianity really says about political and economic liberty.

Hillary's high school youth group inspiration, liberal theologian Paul Tillich, once wrote that "Christianity is the religion of which Socialism is the practice." Opitz completely disagrees, and demonstrates through convincing logical arguments that actually, socialism is an internal version of the international "imperialism" that these same liberals also scorn: a politically connected minority milking the majority of their wealth, and coining pious arguments to justify it. Nothing particularly Christian about any of it. This is a great book. If I were a socialist, I'd compel you to read it.