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Informationen zum Autor Mark R. Amstutz is emeritus professor of political science at Wheaton College, Illinois. Eric Patterson is dean of the School of Government and associate professor of political science at Regent University. He is also senior research fellow at Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs. He is the author or editor of nine books, including Ending Wars Well: Just War Thinking and Post-Conflict (2012) and a Choice Highly Recommended Title, Ethics Beyond War's End ( 2012). Patterson served as a White House Fellow and at the State Department’s Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, and has nearly seventeen years of continuing service as an officer in the Air National Guard. He has been a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies. About the contributors Rabbi Captain Klappentext The book analyzes evangelical Christianity as a comprehensive perspective for understanding the range of contemporary policy issues in America. It finds that evangelicalism can be understood as a distinctive approach to understanding policy debates, that evangelicals are not as monolithic as commonly thought, but that their policy activism is still marred by significant shortcomings, namely their failure to employ non-biblical arguments and rhetoric that might resonate with non-evangelical Christians. Zusammenfassung The book analyzes evangelical Christianity as a comprehensive perspective for understanding the range of contemporary policy issues in America. It finds that evangelicalism can be understood as a distinctive approach to understanding policy debates! that evangelicals are not a... Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Introduction:The Evolving Policy Agenda of Evangelical Christians 2 Section I. Engaging America: Evangelical Approaches to Domestic Policy Questions 3 1. Evangelicals and the Environment: From Political Realism to a Politics of Freedom 4 2. Evangelicals and Poverty 5 3. To Do Justly and Love Mercy: Using Scripture to Guide Criminal Justice Policy 6 4. Enlightened Economics and Free Markets 7 5. Better Late Than Never? Evangelicals and Comprehensive: Immigration Reform 8 Section II. Engaging the World: Evangelical Views on Global Issues 9 6. The Roots of Evangelical Humanitarianism and International Political Advocacy 10 7. Evangelicals and Foreign Policy in an Era of Conflict 11 8. "The New Internationals": Human Rights and American Evangelicalism 12 9. Evangelicals, Pakistan, and the war in Afghanistan: Scriptural Resources for National Security Issues 13 Section III. Engaging Culture: Counterforce or Capitulation? 14 10. Love Rightly Understood: Reflections on the Substance, Style, and Sprit of Evangelica...
