Evangelicalism and The Decline of American Politics - Linn, Jan G.
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Beginning in the 1970s evangelical Christians decided to become involved in our nation's political life by becoming Republican partisans. Today they are widely considered the Republican Party's most reliable constituency. In the process American politics has become more bitter, chaotic, divisive, and now dysfunctional. There is a significant bipartisan consensus that the Republican Party bears the most responsibility for the state of our nation's politics. This is not an endorsement of Democratic policies, only an assessment of why our government no longer gets anything done. What is often…mehr

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Beginning in the 1970s evangelical Christians decided to become involved in our nation's political life by becoming Republican partisans. Today they are widely considered the Republican Party's most reliable constituency. In the process American politics has become more bitter, chaotic, divisive, and now dysfunctional. There is a significant bipartisan consensus that the Republican Party bears the most responsibility for the state of our nation's politics. This is not an endorsement of Democratic policies, only an assessment of why our government no longer gets anything done. What is often ignored, though, is the role evangelicals are playing in what is happening. This book connects the dots between evangelical theology and evangelical politics. The key factor in both is their "no compromise" attitude that sees negotiations as a betrayal of moral principles, confident as they are that they are doing God's work here on earth. The result, as this book shows, is bad politics and bad religion, both of which are out of step with the views of most Americans. It concludes with suggestions for what the nation and evangelicals themselves can do to open the door to our government being able to function again, and to the nation healing some of its divisions.
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Jan Linn is an ordained minister of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), a graduate of the University of Richmond where he was a member of the school's Areopagas Honorary English Society, attended Union Theological Seminary in Virginia, and holds the Doctor of Ministry degree from Christian Theological Seminary (Magna Cum Laude) where he was elected to the Theta Phi Honorary Religious Society, and has done further graduate study at Princeton Theological Seminary. His professional positions include Chaplain and Associate Professor at Lynchburg College in Virginia and Professor of the Practice of Ministry at Lexington Theological Seminary in Kentucky. He has also served as a congregational pastor. As a writer, Jan has had nineteen non-fiction books published, including What's Wrong With The Christian Right, Evangelicalism and The Decline of American Politics, and Unbinding Christianity: Choosing the Values of Jesus over the Beliefs of the Church. He writes a popular blog, "Thinking Against the Grain: Honest Talk about Religion, Politics, and Social Issues," at linnposts.com. A Brother's Peace is his first novel.