Power, Politics and the Fragmentation of Evangelicalism: From the Scopes Trial to the Obama Administration
Although published just before the 2012 presidential election, this book offers a challenge to evangelical Christians best pondered in the relative calm after that partisan storm. Both the evangelical right and evangelical left were active during the recent campaign season in promoting their politic...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2014
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A journal of church and state
Year: 2014, Volume: 56, Issue: 2, Pages: 400-402 |
| Review of: | Power, politics, and the fragmentation of evangelicalism (Downers Grove, Ill : IVP Academic, 2012) (Gasaway, Brantley W.)
Power, politics, and the fragmentation of evangelicalism (Downers Grove, Ill. : IVP Academic, 2012) (Gasaway, Brantley W.) Power, politics, and the fragmentation of evangelicalism (Downers Grove, Ill : IVP Academic, 2012) (Gasaway, Brantley W.) Power, politics, and the fragmentation of evangelicalism (Downers Grove, Ill. : IVP Academic, 2012) (Gasaway, Brantley W.) |
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| Summary: | Although published just before the 2012 presidential election, this book offers a challenge to evangelical Christians best pondered in the relative calm after that partisan storm. Both the evangelical right and evangelical left were active during the recent campaign season in promoting their political agendas and even endorsing their preferred candidates. Yet Kenneth J. Collins argues that conservative and progressive evangelicals have too often succumbed to partisan politicization and displaced the universal nature of the Gospel with their particular political ideologies. As a result, he charges, both groups have fragmented the church, damaged their evangelistic credibility, and lost their prophetic ability to withstand the expanding power of the modern liberal state. |
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| ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/csu022 |