Second Commandment Christians

Arkansas Governor and presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee is quoted in this week’s TIME magazine as saying, “I’m a ‘grace’ Christian, not a ‘law’ Christian. The Second Commandment–do unto others–is the basic tenet of my faith.”

I expect Huckabee’s formulation quickly to become a media reference point for politicians who identify themselves as Bible-believing Christians but want to distance themselves from the Christian Right.  But I am less interested in the politics of Huckabee’s statement than in its theology.