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Though he is careful not to claim causal linkages between Catholic and new evangelical strategies, he traces affinities in their compassion efforts.
Moving beyond disaster relief since the s, such NGOs have increasingly turned to community building and long-term economic development. Detailed fieldwork defines the chapters by Adriane Bilous and John C.
Bilous tracks the work of activist, millennial, evangelical women in New York City. Though many of these women avoid the label evangelical, they espouse a distinctly evangelical form of servant ministry, stressing volunteer work and mutual submission in place of patriarchy.
Green presents a detailed demographic and political portrait of four distinguishable subgroups among the new evangelicals: Kearns explores both liberal and conservative forms of green evangelicalism. The authors chastise such experts for perpetuating stereotypes and ignoring larger issues of structural discrimination.
The religious right cultivates criminalizing legislative solutions while appealing to culture war shibboleths. Stephen Warner, and the late ethicist Glen Harold Stassen wrap up the volume.
A number of themes recur. They all define their mission horizontally, as an effort to engage, reform, and redeem the external cultural, social, and natural environment, but they differ on the best political means for doing so.
In recent years evangelical Christians have been increasingly turning their attention toward issues such as the environment, international human rights. The New Evangelical Social Engagement. Edited by Brian Steensland and Philip Goff. Introduces a growing trend within American.
Also striking is how often new evangelicals have cooperated with Catholics and sometimes Jews as coworkers in their causes. To be sure, ironies abound. The voluntary poverty that some new evangelicals practice is not the same as involuntary poverty, and skipping a meal is not the same as going without one.
Many partisans are acutely aware of those tensions even if they do not know how to resolve them. Women seem curiously absent from the leadership of a movement committed to repairing historic injustices. And many of the most salient social concerns of the era—immigration, imprisonment, obesity, substance abuse, and the humane treatment of animals—do not make the roster, at least in this study.
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