Jonathan Leeman (PhD, University of Wales) is the editorial director for 9Marks, an organization that produces church leadership resources in Washington DC. He is also an occasional lecturer at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and an adjunct teacher for The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.

An incisive and distinctly evangelical contribution to political theology, Leeman’s PoliticalChurch supplants the tired dichotomies of classical liberalism by recapturing the church’sunique political ontology as a community with a message that is also at the same time aninstitution with keys to the kingdom. To bear witness to the rule of Christ is also to represent him publicly to the world. Leeman’s account is impressively well-judged and advances a conception of church as embassy that those who take the rule of Christ seriously cannot afford to overlook. Essential (and edifying!) reading.