The Gospel and Religious Freedom : Historical Studies in Evangelicalism and Political Engagement / David W. Bebbington, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bebbington, David, 1949- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christianity and politics.

Evangelicalism--History.

Evangelicalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 pages)

Place of Publication:

Waco, Texas : Baylor University Press, [2023]

Summary:

Religious freedom as enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights remains a perennial concern across the globe. Over the centuries many evangelicals have not enjoyed this right in practice, but they have generally advocated its acceptance, especially to allow the spread of the gospel. Not always, however, have they supported freedom for religious groups besides themselves, and sometimes they have endorsed discrimination against other bodies. The Gospel and Religious Freedom explores the complex relationship in theory and practice between evangelicals and religious freedom, covering periods from the eighteenth century to the present. The volume includes studies of the intellectual lineage of asserting the free exercise of religion, of evangelicals in the United States who endorsed religious liberty in the early twentieth century, and of recent American evangelical political pressure on behalf of freedom of religion at home and abroad. Other contributions address the evangelical defense of the cause in British territories in the age of William Wilberforce, the apparent threat to religious liberty by Roman Catholics throughout the world, an evangelical attempt to restrain Muslim laws in Nigeria, and the persecution of believers by Communists in Eastern Europe and China. Evangelical Christians emerge as preeminently concerned with evangelism, but in other respects they are diverse in their responses to challenges in various global regions. This volume is designed to demonstrate something of the significance of the evangelical movement in the history of the modern world.

Contents:

America: Protestant dissenters, a second magna carta and religious freedom / Nicholas P. Miller

William Jennings Bryan, the round table club and religious freedom / Jeffrey McDonald

George W. Truett and religious liberty / Todd D. Still

"Their blood cries out": Religious freedom and persecution politics / Melani McAlister

Principled position or interest group politics? Evangelicals and religious liberty in the Trump era / Barry Hankins

The world: Evangelical toleration in the age of Wilberforce: Dissenters, missionaries, and colonial others / John Coffey

"Totalitarianism in religion": Roman Catholicism, religious liberty, and the British Evangelical imagination before Vatican II / John Maiden

Norman Anderson, Islam, and religious freedom in Nigeria / Todd M. Thompson

Evangelicals and the communist regimes in postwar East-Central Europe / Mary Heimann

An open door that no one can shut: Evangelicals under repression in China, 1949-1982 / Wai Luen Kwok

Afterword / Judd Birdsall.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

Other Format:

Print version: Bebbington, David W. The Gospel and Religious Freedom

ISBN:

9781481318877

148131887X

9781481318884

1481318888

OCLC:

1402819702