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Principled Pluralism is the belief that the State should be a religiously neutral institution and that all religions should enjoy civil liberty and equality. In recent years this belief has gained much ground among Christians in both America and the United Kingdom. So much so that literature is now beginning to appear within evangelical circles critiquing the traditional Protestant understanding of the religious calling of the State, arguing that the notion of a Christian State is fundamentally misguided and unjust. In this book Stephen C. Perks provides a detailed critique of the principled pluralist position as recently set forth in The Evangelical Quarterly, a British evangelical theological journal. He sets out to show that religious neutrality in the political sphere is impossible, that all States, including so-called secular States, are religious institutions. The author argues that the evangelical case for principled pluralism fundamentally misunderstands the issues at stake and thus misconceives the proper Christian attitude to the political sphere. He then provides an exposition of the Christian doctrine of the State.