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Evangelicals and American foreign policy / Mark R. Amstutz

Author
Amstutz, Mark R.
Published
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]
Copyright Date
©2014
Physical Description
260 pages ; 25 cm

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Contents
Christianity and foreign policy -- Nature and rise of evangelicals -- Genesis of evangelical global engagement: the missionary movement -- Political ethics of evangelicals -- Evangelicals and global poverty -- Evangelicals and U.S. foreign policy towards Israel -- Rise of evangelical foreign policy advocacy -- Shortcomings of evangelical foreign policy advocacy -- Towards a more effective evangelical global engagement.
Summary
Gallons of ink have been spilled in examining the influence of Evangelicals on American politics. Yet the conversation--among pundits, politicians, and scholars--has focused overwhelmingly on hot-button domestic issues, such as abortion and gay marriage. In Evangelicals and American Foreign Policy, Mark Amstutz looks beyond our shores at Evangelicals' role in American foreign affairs. Writers have generally traced Evangelicals' political awakening to the 1970s or, at the earliest, to World War II. But Amstutz digs deeper, arguing that Evangelicals were active in foreign affairs since at least the nineteenth century, when Protestant missionaries spread throughout the world, gaining fluency in foreign languages and developing knowledge of distant lands. They were on the front lines of American global engagement--serving as agents of humanitarianism and cultural transformation. Indeed, long before anyone had heard of Woodrow Wilson, Evangelicals were America's first internationalists. -- Publisher website.
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ISBN
9780199987634 (alk. paper)
0199987637 (alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-250) and index.
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