My Brother's Keeper George McGovern and Progressive Christianity / Mark A. Lempke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lempke, Mark A., 1983- author.

Series:

Culture and politics in the Cold War and beyond.

Culture and politics in the Cold War and beyond

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Legislators--United States--Biography.

Legislators.

United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.

United States.

Social justice--Religious aspects--Christianity--History--20th century.

Social justice.

Protestantism--Political aspects--United States--History--20th century.

Protestantism.

Progressivism (United States politics)--History--20th century.

Progressivism (United States politics).

Christianity and politics--United States--History--20th century.

Christianity and politics.

United States. Congress. Senate--Biography.

McGovern, George S. (George Stanley), 1922-2012--Influence.

McGovern, George S. (George Stanley), 1922-2012--Political and social views.

McGovern, George S. (George Stanley), 1922-2012--Religion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 231 pages) : illustrations.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2017

Place of Publication:

Boston : University of Massachusetts Press, [2017]

Summary:

"George McGovern is chiefly remembered for his landslide loss to Richard Nixon in 1972. Yet at the time, his candidacy raised eyebrows by invoking the prophetic tradition, an element of his legacy that is little studied. In My Brother's Keeper, Mark A. Lempke explores the influence of McGovern's evangelical childhood, Social Gospel worldview, and conscientious Methodism on a campaign that brought antiwar activism into the mainstream. McGovern's candidacy signified a passing of the torch within Christian social justice. He initially allied with the ecumenical movement and the mainline Protestant churches during a time when these institutions worked easily with liberal statesmen. But the senator also galvanized a dynamic movement of evangelicals rooted in the New Left, who would dominate subsequent progressive religious activism as the mainline entered a period of decline. My Brother's Keeper argues for the influential, and often unwitting, role McGovern played in fomenting a 'Religious Left' in 1970s America, a movement that continues to this day. It joins a growing body of scholarship that complicates the dominant narrative of that era's conservative Christianity"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

George McGovern's soul

For-prophet education

Brother George : a politician as churchman

Pastors, public men, and peacemakers

Calling America to come home

Religious leaders for McGovern

Evangelicals for McGovern

The Christian Left's failure to launch

Becoming Sojourners.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61376-504-5

OCLC:

1012206751