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"Politics" in the broad sense, I like to say, is the process or activity of 
securing justice not only in the state and government but also throughout the 
whole social and cultural order-and this by creating, maintaining, or 
transforming the basic structures of such order so that each person is equally 
free with every other to be the active subject of her or his own self-creation, 
instead of being merely the passive object of the self-creations of others 
(cf. The Point of Christology: 95, 160). A curious implication of this broad 
definition is that politics itself, in the more common, narrow sense having to 
do with the process or activity of governing through the state, turns out to 
have a "political" aspect in the broad meaning of the term. 

"Politics" in the broad sense, I like to say, is the process or activity of securing justice not only in the state and government but also throughout the whole social and cultural order-and this by creating, maintaining, or transforming the basic structures of such order so that each person is equally free with every other to be the active subject of her or his own self-creation, instead of being merely the passive object of the self-creations of others (cf. The Point of Christology: 95, 160). A curious implication of this broad definition is that politics itself, in the more common, narrow sense having to do with the process or activity of governing through the state, turns out to have a "political" aspect in the broad meaning of the term. 

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