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The Right of the Protestant Left : God's Totalitarianism
- Title
- The Right of the Protestant Left : God's Totalitarianism / Mark Thomas Edwards.
- Author
- Edwards, Mark Thomas.
- Publication
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
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Details
- Description
- x, 286 pages; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "This book explores the centrality of religious realignment for the development of American and global politics during the past century. It tells the story of the "Christian Realists" who led the American Protestant left following World War I. As a public theological community with transnational ties, the Realists attacked modern civilization, preached participatory democratic relations, and called for a catholic world Protestantism. In religion as well as in politics, the Realists and their associates at home and abroad proved to be the authentic religious right of their era. Together, they highlighted the conservativism within twentieth-century American liberalism"--
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [243]-274) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Re-membering Christian realism -- Part I. Becoming Christian realists, 1890-1932. "Growing christendom" : the inheritance of Christian realism -- "Seasoned idealism" : the faith of Christian realism -- Part II. Becoming God's totalitarians, 1932-1948. "Evangelical Catholicism" : fixing Christian realism in America -- A "Christian internationale" : Christian realism on the frontlines of world Protestantism -- "Bringing our world together" : the dominion of Christian realism -- Our "tragically quarrelsome neighborhood" : the reverse course of Christian realism -- Part III. Becoming conservative socialists, 1948-1980. "Responsible freedom" : the imagination of Christian realism -- "The humane scale" : the situation of Christian realism -- "The humane scale" : the situation of Christian realism -- The "new Reformation" : the legacy of Christian realism -- Epilogue: Good-bye to Gothic? : the relevance of Christian realism.
- Call Number
- JFD 12-4562
- ISBN
- 9781137019899 (hc.)
- 1137019891 (hc.)
- LCCN
- 2012002051
- OCLC
- 773022296
- Author
- Edwards, Mark Thomas.
- Title
- The Right of the Protestant Left : God's Totalitarianism / Mark Thomas Edwards.
- Imprint
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [243]-274) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 12-4562