Why the Cross Can Do What Politics Can’t by Erwin W. Lutzer
Book Review
by Steve Cowan

Why the Cross Can Do What Politics Can’t by Erwin W. Lutzer. Harvest House, 1999; 191 pages

Should Christians boycott Disney? Should we pin our hopes for a moral society on the Republican Party? Should we fight political battles to make America a Christian nation? Erwin Lutzer addresses such questions as these in this important and helpful book. He argues that the preaching of the cross of Christ is a much more effective and biblical tool than politics for bringing about moral and spiritual transformation in society. He shows also that political activism tends to distort the true mission and message of the church.

Reviewed by Steven B. Cowan
Associate Director of the Apologetics Resource Center

Other Book Reviews