Moral Minority: The Evangelical Left in an Age of Conservatism

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NOTES Introduction 1. Marjorie Hyer, “Social and Political Activism Is Aim of Evangelical Group,” Washington Post, November 30, 1973, D17. Also see Hyer, “Evangelicals: Tackling the Gut Issues,” Christian Century 90, 46 (December 19, 1973): 1244–45; Roy Larson, “Historic Workshop: Evangelicals Do U-Turn Take on Social Problems,” Chicago SunTimes , December 1, 1973. 2. Marjorie Hyer, “Evangelical Protestants Turn Political,” Washington Post, December 28, 1973, C13; Ron Sider, “An Historic Moment,” in The Chicago Declaration, ed. Ron Sider (Carol Stream, Ill.: Creation House, 1974), 25, 29. 3. Richard Quebedeaux, The Young Evangelicals: Revolution in Orthodoxy (New York: Harper and Row, 1974). 4. “Born Again! The Year of the Evangelicals,” Newsweek (October 25, 1976): 75. 5. On the paucity of helpful data on evangelicals and politics in the twentieth century , see Lyman A. Kellstedt and Mark A. Noll, “Religion, Voting for President, and Party Identification, 1948–1984,” in Religion and American Politics: From the Colonial Period to the 1980s, ed. Luke Harlow (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990), 255– 79. Increasingly, denominational identifiers mean less than other groupings such as “evangelical” or “charismatic.” 6. For recent work on the modern conservatism and the religious right, see Lisa McGirr, Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2001); David Farber and Jeff Roche, eds., The Conservative Sixties (New York: Peter Lang, 2003); John G. Turner, Bill Bright and Campus Crusade for Christ: The Renewal of Evangelicalism in Postwar America (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008); Steven P. Miller, Billy Graham and the Rise of the Republican South (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009); Darren Dochuk , From Bible Belt to Sunbelt: Plain-Folk Religion, Grassroots Politics, and the Rise of Evangelical Conservatism (New York: Norton, 2010); Daniel K. Williams, God’s Own Party: The Making of the Christian Right (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010). For several studies of non-evangelical religious progressivism, see David Chappell, A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004); Susan Curtis: A Consuming Faith: The Social Gospel and 274 Notes to Pages 7–13 Modern American Culture (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991); Doug Rossinow, The Politics of Authenticity: Liberalism, Christianity, and the New Left in America (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998); Jared Roll, Spirit of Rebellion: Labor and Religion in the New Cotton South (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010). For journalistic accounts of the evangelical left, see Quebedeaux, The Young Evangelicals ; Quebedeaux, The Worldly Evangelicals (New York: Harper and Row, 1978); Carol Flake, Redemptorama: Culture, Politics, and the New Evangelicalism (Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor, 1984). The few scholarly works include James Davison Hunter, “The New Class and the Young Evangelicals,” Review of Religious Research 22, 2 (December 1980): 155– 69; Robert Booth Fowler, A New Engagement: Evangelical Political Thought, 1966–1976 (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1982); Kyle Cleveland, “The Politics of Jubilee: Ideological Drift and Organizational Schism in a Religious Sect,” Ph.D. dissertation, Temple University, 1990; Boyd T. Reese, Jr., “Resistance and Hope: The Interplay of Theological Synthesis, Biblical Interpretation, Political Analysis, and Praxis in the Christian Radicalism of ‘Sojourners’ Magazine,” Ph.D. dissertation, Temple University, 1991; Brantley Gasaway, “An Alternative Soul of Politics: The Rise of Contemporary Progressive Evangelicalism ,” Ph.D. dissertation, University of North Carolina, 2008. 7. On the Religion and Politics 2000 survey investigated by Robert Wuthnow of Princeton University, see Corwin E. Smidt, “Evangelical and Mainline Protestants at the Turn of the Millennium: Taking Stock and Looking Forward,” in From Pews to Polling Places: Faith and Politics in the American Religious Mosaic, ed. J. Matthew Wilson (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2007), 43. On the insufficiency of the prevailing liberal-conservative dichotomy, see Douglas Jacobsen and William Vance Trollinger, Jr., eds., Re-Forming the Center: American Protestantism, 1900 to the Present (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1998). For more on evangelical voting patterns, see Albert J. Menendez, Evangelicals at the Ballot Box (Amherst, N.Y: Prometheus, 1996). 8. Gordon Spykman, “The Tower of Babel Revisited,” Vanguard (July–August 1975): 24. 9. Curtis J. Evans, “White Evangelical Protestant Responses to the Civil Rights Movement,” Harvard Theological Review 102, 2 (2009): 261. 10. Sider quoted in Michael Cromartie, “Fixing the World: From Nonplayers to Radicals to New Right Conservatives: The Saga of Evangelicals and Social Action,” Christianity Today 36, 5 (April 27, 1992): 25. Chapter 1. Carl Henry and Neo-Evangelical Social Engagement Epigraph: Carl F. H. Henry, The...