Republican Theology: The Civil Religion of American Evangelicals

by Benjamin T. Lynerd

Book Overview

White evangelicals occupy strange property on the ideological map in America, exhibiting a pronounced commitment to the principle of limited government, and yet making a significant exception for issues relating to personal morality - an exception many observers take to be paradoxical at best. Explanations of this phenomenon usually point to the knotty political alliance evangelicals built with free-market types in the late twentieth century, but sermonic evidence suggests a deeper and longer intellectual thread, one that has pervaded evangelical thought all the way back to the American founding.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199363560
• ISBN13: 9780199363568
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"