Republican Theology The Civil Religion of American Evangelicals

Zusatztext In Republican Theology, Benjamin Lynerd offers a trenchant analysis of the theological foundations and persistent cultural power of American evangelicalism's engagement with American politics. From John Witherspoon to Billy Graham, from Benjamin Rush to Jerry Falwell, and down to our own day, he guides the reader across the shifting terrain of American moral politics and explicates the significance of this potent political theology for the broad history of American public life. Informationen zum Autor Benjamin Lynerd is a Montesquieu Forum Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Political Thought at Roosevelt University Klappentext Since the founding, American evangelicals have espoused a civil religion that sees limited government as a condition for a thriving church. This "republican theology," however, also accentuates the church's capacity to elevate civic virtue. Zusammenfassung Since the founding, American evangelicals have espoused a civil religion that sees limited government as a condition for a thriving church. This "republican theology," however, also accentuates the church's capacity to elevate civic virtue.

Product details

• Authors: Benjamin T. Lynerd, Lynerd Benjamin T., Benjamin T. (Benjamin Franklin Project Pos Lynerd
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 25.09.2014
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education
• EAN: 9780199363551
• ISBN: 978-0-19-936355-1
• Pages: 264
• Subjects: Politikwissenschaft, USA, Religion, allgemein, Political Parties, Politische Parteien, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Parties, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State, RELIGION / Christian Ministry / Evangelism, Religion - Church Life, HISTORY / United States / General, RELIGION / Christianity / Denominations, Religion & politics, United States of America, USA, Religion and Politics, History of the Americas, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Religion, Politics & State, Political parties and party platforms, Other Nonconformist & Evangelical Churches, Other Nonconformist and Evangelical Churches