Evangelicals and American foreign policy / Mark R. Amstutz.
2014
E183.7 .A64 2014 (Mapit)
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Title
Evangelicals and American foreign policy / Mark R. Amstutz.
Author
Amstutz, Mark R.
ISBN
9780199987634 hardcover alkaline paper
0199987637 hardcover alkaline paper
9780199987641 electronic book
9780199987658 electronic book
0199987637 hardcover alkaline paper
9780199987641 electronic book
9780199987658 electronic book
Published
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2014.
Language
English
Description
260 pages ; 25 cm
Call Number
E183.7 .A64 2014
Dewey Decimal Classification
261.7
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."--Book jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-250) and index.
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Table of Contents
Christianity and foreign policy
The nature and rise of evangelicals
The genesis of evangelical global engagement: the missionary movement
The political ethics of evangelicals
Evangelicals and global poverty
Evangelicals and U.S. foreign policy towards Israel
The rise of evangelical foreign policy advocacy
Shortcomings of evangelical foreign policy advocacy
Towards a more effective evangelical global engagement.
The nature and rise of evangelicals
The genesis of evangelical global engagement: the missionary movement
The political ethics of evangelicals
Evangelicals and global poverty
Evangelicals and U.S. foreign policy towards Israel
The rise of evangelical foreign policy advocacy
Shortcomings of evangelical foreign policy advocacy
Towards a more effective evangelical global engagement.