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Public pulpits : Methodists and mainline churches in the moral argument of public life / Steven M. Tipton.
LIBRA BR516 .T58 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tipton, Steven M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Christianity and politics--United States.
- Christianity and politics.
- United States.
- Methodist Church (U.S.).
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 556 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Faith in Public: Going to War in Iraq and Doing Good at Home 3
- Chapter 2 Civic Republic and Liberal Democracy: Religion in an Ambiguous Polity 34
- I Contesting Church and Society
- Chapter 3 United Methodism in Crisis: Prophetic Witness through the Board of Church and Society 69
- Chapter 4 United Methodism in Crisis: Scriptural Renewal through the Good News Movement 104
- Chapter 5 Faith and Freedom: The Institute on Religion and Democracy 146
- Chapter 6 From Cold War to Culture Wars: The Evolution of the IRD 186
- II Witnessing versus Winning in Washington
- Chapter 7 Religious Lobbies and Public Churches: Ecclesiology Matters 231
- Chapter 8 The Challenge of Ecumenical Advocacy: Interfaith Impact for Justice and Peace 283
- Chapter 9 Members of One Body: The Churches and the National Council of Churches 333
- Chapter 10 The Mainline in Motion: Resisting the Right, Remaking the Center 361
- Chapter 11 Public Churches and the Church 399
- Appendix Ecclesiology in Action 425.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [533]-545) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226804743
- 0226804747
- OCLC:
- 154689817
- Online:
- Publisher description
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