Books
by John Rankin
The Six Pillars
of Honest
Politics: The
Biblical Nature
of a Level
Playing Field © 2007 John C. Rankin, TEI Publishing House. Available for $30.00 tax and ppd. Checks may be made payable to the TEI, and mailed to: TEI, 150 Trumbull Street, 150 Trumbull Street, 4th Floor, Hartford, CT 06103; or:
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Content
Introduction
– 2
Chapter One: The
Six Pillars of
Honest Politics
– 6
[Summary
biblical ethics
and basis for
the
level playing
field for all
ideas to be
heard equally]
Chapter Two: The
Chosen Absence
of the
Biological
Father – 15
[Diagnosing the
greatest
social evil in
human history
that denies
children a level
playing field
for opportunity
in life]
Chapter Three:
Sorcery at the
Right Hand of
Power – 22
[The
interpretive
reality
concerning occultic
opposition to
honest politics
and the level
playing field]
Chapter Four:
Jesus, in the
Face of His
Enemies – 48
[The most
important debate
in human history,
where church and
state are
defined, where
Jesus uses the
level playing
field
through which
his enemies
silence
themselves, and
through which he
purchases our
salvation]
Chapter Five:
The Mars Hill
Society – 105
[Organizing for
a Connecticut
Constitutional
Convention in
2009, and a
federal one too,
where the level
playing field
can happen
fully]
Chapter Six:
Seven
Resolutions –
130
[Political
strategies in
the meantime
that serve the
level
playing field]
Chapter Seven:
The Ministers
Affirmation on
Marriage – 141
[Hartford
Courant ad
signed by
700 ministers,
inviting
skeptics to a
level playing
field]
Chapter Eight:
Changing the
Metaphor for
Church and State
– 149
[Replacing the
negative “wall
of separation”
metaphor with
the positive
“level playing
field”]
Chapter Nine:
The Most
Important Ten
Commandments
Case in the
Nation – 159
[A public
school teacher
was fired for
the mere mention
of the Ten
Commandments,
and denied a
level playing
field in the
system to appeal
the injustice]
Chapter Ten: An
Alternative to
Health Insurance
– 174
[A true option
rooted in
biblical ethics
and the level
playing field of
a free market
economy, which
can cut costs
drastically and
multiply quality
medical care]
Chapter Eleven
Simplified State
Law – 180
[Reducing
Connecticut law
from 17,000
pages to 22
(that other
states are able
to model),
making it
accessible to
all people,
multiplying
justice and
mercy, cutting
government costs
drastically]
Chapter Twelve:
Simplified
Federal Law –
219
[Reducing
federal law from
48,000 pages to14,
making it
accessible to
all people,
multiplying
justice and
mercy, cutting
government costs
drastically]
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June release by
Regal Books
which focuses on
the topic of
The Six
Pillars of
Biblical Power.
Details
forthcoming.
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First the
Gospel, Then
Politics...
© 1999-2008 John
C. Rankin, TEI
Publishing
House:
Volume 1, "Only
Genesis," was
published in
1999, and is
currently sold
out.
Volume 2,
"Political
Theology" is
written, but yet
to be published.
Volume 3,
"Spiritual
Territory" is
written, but yet
to be published.
When Volume 1 is
republished,
presently
scheduled for
2008,
alongside the
publication of
Volumes 2 and 3,
an announcement
will be made.
