Jimmy Carter, "Progressive" Evangelicals, and the Religious Right
by Chelsen Vicari
http://juicyecumenism.com/2013/10/27/jimmy-carter-progressive-evangelicals-and-the-religious-right/
October 27, 2013
Pepperdine University's Washington, DC program honored the late U.S. Sen. Mark Hatfield (R-Oregon) in a Senate conference room on October 22 with speaker Randall Balmer, historian of evangelicals, Episcopal priest and Chairman of Dartmouth College's Religion Department. Balmer's lecture examined the history of evangelicalism's - both liberal and conservative - effect on former President Jimmy Carter's political success and failures.
"How it is that the very [evangelical] people who helped catapult [Carter] to the White House in 1976 turned so drastically...rapidly against him four years later?" questioned Balmer, who is currently working on a book addressing Carter's faith and the presidency.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
by Chelsen Vicari
http://juicyecumenism.com/2013/10/27/jimmy-carter-progressive-evangelicals-and-the-religious-right/
October 27, 2013
Pepperdine University's Washington, DC program honored the late U.S. Sen. Mark Hatfield (R-Oregon) in a Senate conference room on October 22 with speaker Randall Balmer, historian of evangelicals, Episcopal priest and Chairman of Dartmouth College's Religion Department. Balmer's lecture examined the history of evangelicalism's - both liberal and conservative - effect on former President Jimmy Carter's political success and failures."How it is that the very [evangelical] people who helped catapult [Carter] to the White House in 1976 turned so drastically...rapidly against him four years later?" questioned Balmer, who is currently working on a book addressing Carter's faith and the presidency.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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