Unconservative Evangelicals
Unconservative Evangelicals
by Jordan Hylden
http://www.firstthings.com/article/2011/12/unconservative-evangelicals
January 2012
From Billy Graham to Sarah Palin: Evangelicals and the Betrayal of American Conservatism
by D. G. Hart
Eerdmans, 252 pages, $25
The title of historian D. G. Hart's new book, From Billy Graham to Sarah Palin: Evangelicals and the Betrayal of American Conservatism, is somewhat misleading. Hart doesn't actually think that evangelicals have betrayed conservatism but rather that they were never very conservative in the first place. The marriage was an uneasy match from the start, and the recent distancing of the younger generation from the religious right is precisely what history should lead us to expect.
As Hart explains, evangelicals began in the nineteenth century as zealous reformers and social gospellers, and today they are only reverting to type. They believe in conversion, unexpected revival, and the timeless truth of the Bible. And so, more often than not, they tend to sit crossways to traditions and established institutions, to get impatient with gradualism and compromise, and to trouble the status quo with sweeping, radical reforms drawn directly from the pages of Scripture.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
by Jordan Hylden
http://www.firstthings.com/article/2011/12/unconservative-evangelicals
January 2012
From Billy Graham to Sarah Palin: Evangelicals and the Betrayal of American Conservatism
by D. G. Hart
Eerdmans, 252 pages, $25
The title of historian D. G. Hart's new book, From Billy Graham to Sarah Palin: Evangelicals and the Betrayal of American Conservatism, is somewhat misleading. Hart doesn't actually think that evangelicals have betrayed conservatism but rather that they were never very conservative in the first place. The marriage was an uneasy match from the start, and the recent distancing of the younger generation from the religious right is precisely what history should lead us to expect.As Hart explains, evangelicals began in the nineteenth century as zealous reformers and social gospellers, and today they are only reverting to type. They believe in conversion, unexpected revival, and the timeless truth of the Bible. And so, more often than not, they tend to sit crossways to traditions and established institutions, to get impatient with gradualism and compromise, and to trouble the status quo with sweeping, radical reforms drawn directly from the pages of Scripture.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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