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Is the Good Book Good Enough?
Evangelical Perspectives on Public Policy
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2010
Summary
The political emergence of evangelical Christians has been a signal development in America in the past quarter century. And while their voting tendencies have been closely scrutinized, their participation in the policy debates of the day has not. They continue to be caricatured as anti-intellectual Bible thumpers whose views are devoid of reason, logic, or empirical evidence. They're seen as lemmings, following the cues of Dobson and Robertson and marching in lock step with the Republican party on the 'culture wars' issues of abortion, gay rights, and guns. Is The Good Book Good Enough? remedies the neglect of this highly influential group, which makes up as much as a third of the American public. It offers a carefully nuanced and comprehensive portrait of evangelical attitudes on a wide range of policies and their theological underpinnings. Each essay applies an evangelical lens to a contemporary issue - environmentalism, immigration, family and same-sex marriage, race relations, global human rights, foreign policy and national security, social welfare and poverty, and economic policy. The result thoroughly enriches our understanding of evangelicalism as a prism through which many view a wide range of policy debates.
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Copyright year
2010
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-5059-7
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-5061-0
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
292
Product type
Edited Book
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Introduction: The Evolving Policy Agenda of Evangelical Christians No access Pages 1 - 20
1 Evangelicals and the Environment: From Political Realism to a Politics of Freedom No access
2 Evangelicals and Poverty No access
3 To Do Justly and Love Mercy: Using Scripture to Guide Criminal Justice Policy No access
4 Enlightened Economics and Free Markets No access
5 Better Late Than Never? Evangelicals and Comprehensive Immigration Reform No access
6 The Roots of Evangelical Humanitarianism and International Political Advocacy No access
7 Evangelicals and Foreign Policy in an Era of Conflict No access
8 “The New Internationals”: Human Rights and American Evangelicalism No access
9 Evangelicals, Pakistan, and the War in Afghanistan: Scriptural Resources for National Security Issues No access
10 Love Rightly Understood: Reflections on the Substance, Style, and Spirit of Evangelical Activism and (Same-Sex) Marriage Policy No access
11 Evangelicals and the Elusive Goal of Racial Reconciliation: The Role of Culture, Politics, and Public Policy No access
12 Politics, Evangelicals, and the Unavoidability of Metaphysics No access
13 The Good Book as Policy Guide: Characteristics, Critiques, and Contributions of Evangelical Public Policy Participation No access
