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In 1973, nearly a decade before the height of the Moral Majority, a group of progressive activists assembled in a Chicago YMCA to strategize about how to move the nation in a more evangelical direction through political action. When they emerged, the Washington Post predicted that the new evangelical left could "shake both political and religious life in America." The following decades proved the Post both right and wrong-evangelical participation in the political sphere was intensifying, but in the end it was the religious right, not the left, that built a viable movement and mobilized electorally. How did the evangelical right gain a moral monopoly and why were evangelical progressives, who had shown such promise, left behind? In Moral Minority, the first comprehensive history of the evangelical left, David R. Swartz sets out to answer these questions, charting the rise, decline, and political legacy of this forgotten movement. Though vibrant in the late nineteenth century, progressive evangelicals were in eclipse following religious controversies of the early twentieth century, only to reemerge in the 1960's and 1970's. They stood for antiwar, civil rights, and anti-consumer principles, even as they stressed doctrinal and sexual fidelity. Politically progressive and theologically conservative, the evangelical left was also remarkably diverse, encompassing groups such as Sojourners, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, Evangelicals for Social Action, and the Association for Public Justice. Swartz chronicles the efforts of evangelical progressives who expanded the concept of morality from the personal to the social and showed the way-organizationally and through political activism-to what would become the much larger and more influential evangelical right. By the 1980's, although they had witnessed the election of Jimmy Carter, the nation's first born-again president, progressive evangelicals found themselves in the political wilderness, riven by identity politics and alienated by a skeptical Democratic Party and a hostile religious right. In the twenty-first century, evangelicals of nearly all political and denominational persuasions view social engagement as a fundamental responsibility of the faithful. This most dramatic of transformations is an important legacy of the evangelical left. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Swartz in this well researched and written book traces the rise and decline of the evangelical left - what he terms the Moral Minority. He looks primarily at the period after 1960 - a time when for most evangelicals politics was taboo and faith was personal and had no place in the public square.
The key players that Swartz examines include Carl Henry, John Alexander, Jim Wallis, Mark Hatfield, Samuel Escobar, Richard Mouw and Ron Sider. The book is in three parts each looking at the emerging, the broadening and finally the fragmentation of the left. The peak of the movement came in 1973 with the Chicago Declaration of Evangelical Social Concern.
The fall of the evangelical left, according to Swartz, however, was its fragmentation and its focus on identity politics. As he puts it:
‘By the late 1970s, it was clear that the politics of identity in all its forms was stunting the promise of the evangelical left. Rifts widened between men and women, black and white, Anabaptist and Calvinist—and in countless other permutations’ (211).
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