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Könyv Republican Theology Benjamin T. Lynerd

Republican Theology

The Civil Religion of American Evangelicals

Szerző: Benjamin T. Lynerd
Nyelv: Angol
Kötés: Kemény kötésű
Kiadó: Oxford University Press Inc
Elérhetőség: Utánnyomás
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59 325 Ft
As an electoral bloc, contemporary white evangelical Christians maintain a remarkable ideological an...

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Szerző
Benjamin T. Lynerd
Nyelv
Angol
Kötés
Könyv - Kemény kötésű
Kiadva
2014
oldal
264
EAN
9780199363551
ISBN
0199363552
Enbook ID
04532310
Kiadó
Oxford University Press Inc
Súly
588
Méretek
162 x 242 x 21

Teljes leírás

As an electoral bloc, contemporary white evangelical Christians maintain a remarkable ideological and partisan conformity, perhaps unmatched by any other community outside of African Americans. Historically, evangelicals have supported various political parties, but their approach to civil religion, or the way that they apply the spiritual to the public realm, has, as Republican Theology argues, been consistent in its substance since the founding of the nation. Put simply, this civil religion holds that limited government and a free-market are essential to the cultivation of Christian virtue, while the livelihood of the republic depends on the virtue of its citizens. While evangelicals have long promoted conservative moral causes, from temperance and anti-obscenity in the nineteenth century to abstinence education in the twentieth, they have also aligned themselves on many other seemingly unrelated agendas: in support of the Revolution in the 1770s, on antislavery in the 1820s, against labor unionism in the 1880s, against the New Deal in the 1930s, on assertive anticommunism in the 1950s (a major theme in Billy Graham's early sermons), and in favor of deregulation and lower taxes in the 1980s. As Benjamin T. Lynerd contends, the rise of the

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