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Book Review: Reclaiming Hope by Michael Wear

June 23rd, 2017 | 9 min read

By Jake Meador

In Reclaiming Hope Michael Wear has written an engaging, clarifying work that nevertheless fails because it does not properly distinguish between a person’s testimony and their political theology. As such, the book often begins well before veering off into needless ambiguity due to a fundamental failure to approach politics in a way that is distinctly Christian from top to bottom. We’ll begin this review by considering what the book does well before explaining how these good starts routinely veer into ambiguity due to the functionally secularist political theology which animates the book.

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Jake Meador

Jake Meador is the editor-in-chief of Mere Orthodoxy. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Commonweal, First Things, Books & Culture, The Dispatch, National Review, Comment, Christianity Today, and Plough. He lives in his hometown of Lincoln, NE with his wife and four children.