Description: Many assume that evangelicals have always shared the ideology and approach of the Moral Majority, but the truth is much more complex. This book presents evangelicals in their own words, complicating common perceptions of evangelical attitudes toward war and peace.
Brief description: Timothy D. Padgett (PhD, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School) is the Resident Theologian of BreakPoint.org with the Colson Center for Christian Worldview. His research interests focus on the way Christians argue for diverse viewpoints while sharing a common biblical foundation--particularly regarding the relationship between church and state, Christ and culture, and war and peace.
Review Quotes: In many corners of the world, white American evangelicals are viewed as God-and-country hawks, blind supporters of their nation's military-industrial complex. But in this thought-provoking book, historian Timothy Padgett demonstrates that, from the time of World War II to Vietnam, the reality was rather more complicated. At their best, the most insightful evangelicals he features thought carefully and critically about their nation's wars and related foreign policy. They published support for the United States government. But they also criticized it--time and time again--based on teachings in the Bible. In their best-known magazines, they claimed allegiance more to God than to country.--Douglas A. Sweeney, Distinguished Professor of Church History and the History of Christian Thought, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School