Private or Public                                                      2
Political Theology or Politicized Theology           3
What is Our Citizenship?                                        4
Common Interests or Uncommon Concerns        7
The Whole-ly Way Constrained or Redeemed    10
Whole Political Theology and Practice                11

Ch 2 Knowing Our Roots and Its Branches…………………….….15

Where Do We Start?                                                                    15
In the Beginning                                                                            16
From the Beginning: the Evolution of Human Progress          22
The Evolutionary Shift                                                                 25

Evolutionary Repercussions & the Qualitative Relational Consequences 27

Evolutionary Self-ism and the Recourse                                   31
Progressing Survival or Growing Wholeness                           35
The Roots of Covenant                                                                38
The Gospel’s Roots and Branches                                             42

Ch 3 The Nexus of Past and Future…………………………………..45

Vignettes of the Past or the Big Picture                          46
     The Tension of Minimalists with the Word                      47
The Ruling Nexus of the Word’s Whole Picture             54
     Language Barriers                                                          57
     Connecting to Politics                                                     58
Returning to the Past for the Future                                61
     The Past & Future of Creation                                        63
The Nexus for the Future                                                  65

Ch 4 The Existential Bad of the Good News…………………….….69

Good Measurement of the Bad                     70
The “Halo Effect” of the Bad                         72
The “Balancing Act” of the Bad                    75
“Immunity Escape” of the Bad                      78
The Unredacted Bad News of the Gospel    81
     The Common Denominator of Injustice       82
     Status-ing in Quo                                         85
Absorbing the Bad News or Claiming It       88

Ch 5 The Calculus for Human Life and
the Algorithm for the Human Condition……………..............……..95

The Human Genome and Phenotype                        96
A Fragmentary Majority or the Whole Minority        99
The Rule of Law or Rules of Law                             104
     The Rule or the Exception                                      106
     The Surface of the Law or the Heart of the Law     110
Calculating the Common from the Uncommon      113
The Algorithm for Change                                        117
The Relational Outcome of the Gospel’s Calculus & Algorithm 126

Ch 6 The Light in the Darkness……………………………………....133

Church Originalism, Legalism or Voluntarism                                             134
Common Ground or Uncommon Connection                                               140
     The Zoom Church                                                                                        141
     Countering the Re-envisioned Church by Restoring God’s Family Lens     142
Opposing Church Divisions by Family Together in Wholeness                 148
Freed to Reconcile                                                                                          154
The Equalizer Emerges                                                                                  156
     Four Key Dynamics for the Church as Equalizer                                       158
The Light Embodied Inner Out as the Penultimate Witness                       170

Ch 7 Summoning Essential Workers………………………………...173

The Summons Unfolds                                     173
The Summons’ Dissonance                             175
His Summons’ Exclusive Inclusiveness       178

Glossary of Key Terms………………………………………………..181

Scripture Index (Primary Source)…………………….……………..185

Bibliography (Secondary Source)………….…………………….....188