The Rise and Decline of the Evangelical Left

Evangelicals remerged from the depths with the election of Jimmy Carter in 1976 bringing the religion ski binding into the political world later a dying give a focussing in the 1920s. Until the 1970s evangelicals were non a large figure in the political scene, a political scientist Lyman A. Kellsetdts data proved that evangelicals were less likely to be involved in bleed activities than other religious groups.1Carl henry is considered the architect of neo-evangelism for carrying evangelicalism to the forefront of political relation in the 1970s. When the Vietnam state of war started to put up headlines Carl Henry spoke step forward with a pro war standpoint. However, Jim Wallis, another evangelical activist, took the order and took Henrys argument and ran the other way saying American interest group in this war is wrong. tail Alexander was also an evangelical figurehead. Alexanders actions towards racial legal expert were homogeneous to the evangelicals masss and a ctions, very inconsistent. The political view on racial justice of the evangelicals is one of their downfalls. M whatever believed in justice and spoke pop against segregation, but hesitated to take any major action against things such as the Jim Crow laws.\nThis seemed to be a reoccurring problem with many another(prenominal) political issues for the evangelicals because the Bible gives them no party platform to follow. Since the lines on issues such as extend and war were blurred and leaders divided within the group, evangelicals had no political identifier. Choosing to support racial justice and opposing the war slid them under the Democratic platform. save with the Catholic church devising a stance for professional person disembodied spirit the evangelicals saw their increment movement and wanted to copy that power. So the evangelicals hopped on batting order with signs screaming Choose Life: All Life is Sacred. The Democrats until now were Pro Choice on this platform leaving the evangelicals desolate now somewhere in the middle of the two parties. in the meantime the Republican party star...