{"id":2524,"date":"2012-11-07T21:55:02","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T02:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/?p=2524"},"modified":"2012-11-07T21:55:02","modified_gmt":"2012-11-08T02:55:02","slug":"political-scientist-hunter-baker-on-the-proper-role-of-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/political-scientist-hunter-baker-on-the-proper-role-of-government","title":{"rendered":"Political Scientist Hunter Baker on The Proper Role of Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thegospelcoalition.org\/blogs\/tgc\/2012\/10\/15\/how-to-use-the-hammer-understanding-the-proper-role-of-government\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hunter Baker, in an essay at The Gospel Coalition:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Surely, the most common denominator of justice is preventing and punishing freedom-destroying evil perpetrated by those who do not recognize even the most basic duties of human beings toward each other. If a government cannot accomplish this goal, then we call it a failed state.<em>&#8220;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We&#8217;ll discuss what went wrong in Tuesday&#8217;s election, the future of evangelical political engagement, and the proper role of government with Union University&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/hunterbaker.wordpress.com\" target=\"_blank\">Hunter Baker<\/a> on Thursday&#8217;s podcast of The Paul Edwards Program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hunter Baker, in an essay at The Gospel Coalition: &#8220;Surely, the most common denominator of justice is preventing and punishing freedom-destroying evil perpetrated by those who do not recognize even the most basic duties of human beings toward each other. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/political-scientist-hunter-baker-on-the-proper-role-of-government\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[233,606],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2525,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2524\/revisions\/2525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}