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These debates concerned bodily, spiritual, and sexual purity; the morality of state-mandated medical risk; the importance of children; and the authority of parents and doctors. Kieffer explains that diverse groups of Americans utilized religious ideals and practices to question or resist vaccination. With this new, illuminating perspective on vaccine hesitancy, Kieffer offers a novel and even-handed way to understand Americans' changing and increasingly divided attitudes toward biomedical knowledge and technology. 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Considering the attention that many Christian parachurch groups, churches, and individual believers give to politics--and of the varying and sometimes divergent political ideals and aims among them\u003cem\u003e--Five Views on the Church and Politics \u003c\/em\u003eprovides a helpful breakdown of the possible Christian approaches to political involvement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeneral Editor Amy Black brings together five top-notch political theologians in the book, each representing one of the five key political traditions within Christianity: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnabaptist (\u003cem\u003eSeparationist\u003c\/em\u003e: the most limited possible Christian involvement in politics) - represented by Thomas Heilke\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLutheran (\u003cem\u003eParadoxical\u003c\/em\u003e: strong separation of church and state) - represented by Robert Benne\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBlack Church (\u003cem\u003eProphetic\u003c\/em\u003e: the church's mission is to be a voice for communal reform) - represented by Bruce Fields\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReformed (\u003cem\u003eTransformationist\u003c\/em\u003e: emphasizes God's sovereignty over all things, including churches and governments) - represented by James K. 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