Book Description
Progressive Evangelicals and the Pursuit of Social Justice
Author : Brantley W. Gasaway
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 49,3 MB
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 1469617722
Progressive Evangelicals and the Pursuit of Social Justice
Author : Ian J. Shaw
Publisher : Inter-Varsity Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 42,33 MB
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1783596597
Evangelical Christians around the world have debated for years the extent to which they should be involved in ministries of social action and concern. In Evangelicals and Social Action Ian J. Shaw offers clarity to these debates by tracing the historical involvement of the evangelical church with issues of social action. Focusing on thinking and practices from John Wesley, one of the architects of eighteenth century evangelicalism, to John Stott's work in the second half of the twentieth century, he explores whether evangelism and social action really have been intimately related throughout the history of the church as Stott contended. After an overview of Christian social action prior to Wesley, from the early church through to the eighteenth century, Evangelicals and Social Action explores in detail responses from the evangelical church around the world to eighteen key issues of social action and concern - including poverty, racial equality, addiction, children 'at risk,' slavery, unemployment, and learning disability - encountered between the 1730s and the 1970s. Drawn from a wide range of contexts, these examples illuminate and clarify how Evangelical Christianity has viewed and been a part of ministries of social action over the last three centuries. With an assessment of the issues raised by this historical survey and its implications for evangelicals in the contemporary world, Evangelicals and Social Action is a book that will help better inform the debates around the evangelical church and social action still happening today. This is a book for anyone wanting to deepen their knowledge of the history of the evangelical church, and anyone wanting to better understand Christian social action from an evangelical perspective.
Author : Brian Steensland
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 48,37 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0199329540
Evangelicals are increasingly turning their attention to such issues as the environment, international human rights, economic development, racial reconciliation, and urban renewal. The New Evangelical Social Engagement maps this new religious terrain and spells out its significance.
Author : Mark Labberton
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 25,21 MB
Release : 2018-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0830880429
Evangelicalism in America has cracked. What defines the evangelical social and political vision—is it the gospel or is it culture? Edited by Mark Labberton, this collection of essays offers a diverse and provocative set of reflections from evangelical "insiders" who wrestle with the question of what it means to be evangelical in today's polarized climate.
Author : J. Budziszewski
Publisher :
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 30,28 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Religion
ISBN :
In this work, J. Budziszewski examines evangelical political thought over the past fifty years through four key figures--Carl F. H. Henry, Abraham Kuyper, Francis Schaeffer, and John Howard Yoder--to argue that, in addition to Scripture, the evangelical political movement should be informed by the tradition of natural law. David L. Weeks (Azusa Pacific University) responds on Henry, William Edgar (Westminster Seminary) responds to the Schaeffer section, John Bolt (Calvin Seminary) comments on Kuyper, and Ashley Woodiwiss (Wheaton College) offers remarks on the Yoder portion. Jean Bethke Elshtain (University of Chicago) provides the afterword, summarizing the dialogue and offering her own observations. In addition, the book includes an introduction by Michael Cromartie of the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
Author : Peter Goodwin Heltzel
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 33,30 MB
Release : 2009-07-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0300155735
This timely book investigates the increasing visibility and influence of evangelical Christians in recent American politics with a focus on racial justice. Peter Goodwin Heltzel considers four evangelical social movements: Focus on the Family, the National Association of Evangelicals, Christian Community Development Association, and Sojourners. The political motives and actions of evangelical groups are founded upon their conceptions of Jesus Christ, Heltzel contends. He traces the roots of contemporary evangelical politics to the prophetic black Christianity tradition of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the socially engaged evangelical tradition of Carl F. H. Henry. Heltzel shows that the basic tenets of King's and Henry's theologies have led their evangelical heirs toward a prophetic evangelicalism in a shade of blue green--blue symbolizing the tragedy of black suffering in the Americas, and green symbolizing the hope of a prophetic evangelical engagement with poverty, AIDS, and the environment. This fresh theological understanding of evangelical political groups shines new light on the ways evangelicals shape and are shaped by broader American culture.
Author : Ronald J. Sider
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 23,10 MB
Release : 2016-01-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1498280609
Author : Mae Elise Cannon
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 38,63 MB
Release : 2013-01-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0830837752
Mae Elise Cannon opens the annals of activist history to see if there is a correlation between great acts of compassion and advocacy and great depths of prayer. Looking at the lives of Mother Teresa, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Martin Luther King Jr. and others, Cannon finds a depth of spiritual practice at the root of courageous social action.
Author : Ronald J. Sider
Publisher :
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 38,99 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Christianity and economics
ISBN : 9780340228104
Author : Omri Elisha
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 18,29 MB
Release : 2011-07-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520950542
In this evocative ethnography, Omri Elisha examines the hopes, frustrations, and activist strategies of American evangelical Christians as they engage socially with local communities. Focusing on two Tennessee megachurches, Moral Ambition reaches beyond political controversies over issues such as abortion, same-sex marriage, and public prayer to highlight the ways that evangelicals at the grassroots of the Christian Right promote faith-based causes intended to improve the state of social welfare. The book shows how these ministries both help churchgoers embody religious virtues and create provocative new opportunities for evangelism on a public scale. Elisha challenges conventional views of U.S. evangelicalism as narrowly individualistic, elucidating instead the inherent contradictions that activists face in their efforts to reconcile religious conservatism with a renewed interest in compassion, poverty, racial justice, and urban revivalism.