Bernard Jenkin has just told the Any Questions audience that "Jesus never got involved in politics", the old standby of those whose political and economic views are incompatible with Christianity, as the views being demonstrated against outside Saint Paul's Cathedral certainly are.
Jenkin has probably been influenced by Enoch Powell's insistence on the utter otherworldliness of Christianity. But that position was, and is, wholly incompatible with Powell's own vigorous pulpit defence of bodily resurrection. Christianity is Incarnational and Resurrectional. Incarnation and Resurrection are not wholly otherworldly. And they are certainly not unrelated either to politics or to economics.
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