The Right of the Protestant Left
Subtitle: God's Totalitarianism
By: Mark Thomas Edwards
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781137019899
Subjects: Protestantism; HISTORY / Social History; Christianity and politics; Christianity; HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century; Globalization; Church history; Protestant churches; History; HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
Description: "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"--