Latin American evangelicals were internally divided over Sandinista socialism

Evidence

In Nicaragua, evangelical Protestants and Catholics alike were divided. Some evangelicals supported the Sandinistas, though not uncritically; like Catholics who embraced liberation theology, they saw socialism as a biblical response to poverty and oppression. But many others feared communist encroachment and opposed the Sandinistas’ revolutionary efforts. — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 262

Categorization

• XREF: Counter-point to the book’s larger argument that conservative evangelicalism was monolithic; Nicaraguan evangelicals split along liberation-theology vs anti-communist lines. — connects to: Early evangelical responses to civil rights were divided along left and fundamentalist lines — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 88; A quarter of evangelicals oppose Christian nationalism, not all endorse it — Andrew L. Whitehead; Samuel L. Perry, Taking America Back for God, 168; Antebellum evangelicals campaigned for causes the modern Religious Right opposes — Randall Balmer, Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of the…, 47
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Early evangelical responses to civil rights were divided along left and fundamentalist lines — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 88; A quarter of evangelicals oppose Christian nationalism, not all endorse it — Andrew L. Whitehead; Samuel L. Perry, Taking America Back for God, 168; Antebellum evangelicals campaigned for causes the modern Religious Right opposes — Randall Balmer, Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of the…, 47