Institutions built for withdrawal later enabled evangelical political reentry
Evidence
The decade of the 1970s did not begin or end well for progressive evangelicalism, the tradition exemplified by Charles Grandison Finney and other nineteenth-century evangelicals. In between the beginning and end of the decade, however, the movement may have reached its zenith with a remarkable affirmation of evangelical social concern and the election of a progressive evangelical as president of the United States. — Randall Balmer, Bad Faith, 72 (
#builds-on, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Progressive evangelicalism peaked in the mid-1970s with Carter’s election — Randall Balmer, Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of the…, 72; Evangelicals built a self-contained subculture after ridicule at the Scopes trial — Randall Balmer, Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of the…, 68; Mid-century evangelicals boycotted voting as politics belonged to Satan — Randall Balmer, Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of the…, 70 (+3 more)
Related
- Progressive evangelicalism peaked in the mid-1970s with Carter’s election (similarity 0.88)
- Evangelical institutions built in the 1930s later powered their 1970s political reentry. (similarity 0.85)
- Mid-century evangelicals boycotted voting as politics belonged to Satan (similarity 0.82)
- Unorganized evangelicals voted for Carter before the Religious Right existed (similarity 0.80)
- Evangelicals conspired against Carter’s reelection secretly (similarity 0.79)
- Evangelicals built a self-contained subculture after ridicule at the Scopes trial (similarity 0.78)