Evangelicals as Lockeans -- Republican theology -- Covenantal origins -- American foundations -- Entrenchment in the Second Great Awakening -- Darwin as ally, social gospel as foe -- The triumph of free market theology
Summary
Since the founding, American evangelicals have espoused a political theology that sees limited government as a condition for a thriving church and accordingly tilts toward libertarian politics. This 'republican theology', however, also predicates the republic's longevity on the church's capacity to elevate civic virtue, an impulse toward moral activism that often cuts against the libertarian grain. How evangelicals navigate the logic of their civil religion forms the subtext of their participation in American politics
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Online resource; title from home page (viewed on July 22, 2014)
