Comments on: Book Review: Reagan’s Children by Hans Zeiger

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 07:09:25 +0000

ok, thanks for the correction

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 05:49:36 +0000

You're reading way too much into the title, Brandon. In the way you're defining it, Zeiger's as much a child of Reagan as you are a child of Ron Paul.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 03:55:44 +0000

Brandon, if you actually read the book, you will see that Reagan's Children refers to those of us born in the Reagan Era. The case he makes is that those of us born in this era tend to be more conservative in many issues. Because of this, he is optimistic about the culture and has faith that God, in his sovereignty, can turn generations back to himself if he wills.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 03:15:55 +0000

Amen.
Thanks for the review Roger. I think the title says a lot. What about God's children? Are children of God also children of Reagan? Do conservatives have two daddies after all?
There is a good book review in the OPC's “Ordained Servant” that discusses Reagan's shining city on a hill metaphor:
http://opc.org/os.html?article_id=85

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 03:35:47 +0000

I was very excited to see you reviewing this book. Hans is a friend of mine, and I think I can speak with a good degree of accuracy that he believes the church is essential as well. Given that his interests lie in politics, it is understandable that he emphasized that sphere of society. I wouldn't be too quick to write him off as just another Religious Right writer. Politics is one way, but not the only way. Having worked with him as leaders in campus ministry, I know how important he thinks the local church is.
After reading Reagan's Children I became an optimist. As Hans points out, the pessimistic Christian accepts as inevitable the agendas of the wicked, forgetting that God is “there and not silent.”