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Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Initially a populist rebellion against the established Protestant churches, evagelicalism became the dominant religious force in the country before the Civil War, but the northerners and southerners split over the issue of slavery. After the Civil War, the northern evangelicals split, eventually causing a conflict between fundamentalists and modernists. Only after the Second World War would conservative evangelicalism gain momentum, thanks in large...
Author
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
355 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Addresses the relationship between faith and allegiance, arguing that the ultimate hope of individuals lies not in partisan political options but in Jesus and the incarnation of the politic of the church as a people "set apart" from this world.
9) Faith and politics: how the "moral values" debate divides America and how to move forward together
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
x, 238 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xvi, 386 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Traditionalist Christians who oppose same-sex marriage and other cultural developments in the United States wonder why they are being forced to bracket their beliefs in order to participate in public life. This situation is not new, says Steven D. Smith: Christians two thousand years ago faced very similar challenges. Picking up poet T. S. Eliot's World War II-era thesis that the future of the West would be determined by a contest between Christianity...
Author
Publisher
HarperOne
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 336 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Religious faith was a driving force behind our greatest national reforms, such as the abolition of slavery and the civil rights movement. These "great awakenings" happened periodically at crucial times in our nation's history to propel us toward the common good. The time is ripe for another movement that will transform this country. With The Great Awakening, Wallis [rediscovers] our moral center and provides both the needed inspiration and a concrete...
Author
Publisher
FaithWords
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 204 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Jonathan Merritt gives voice to an emerging generation of Christians who engage the political process with an unpolarized, Christ-centered faith that is changing the landscape of Christianity and politics"--Provided by the publisher.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 529 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Examining the ways in which politics and religion have influenced each other over the last two hundred years, Burleigh reveals that throughout history the two realms have interacted in complex and sometimes lethal ways--just as they still do today. The overall effect was a widespread increase in secularism and a demystification of the power of politics. Burleigh encompasses the philosophies of the Enlightenment, as well as the pseudo-religious aspects...
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