The Right of the Protestant Left God's Totalitarianism

by Edwards, Mark Thomas

• ISBN13: 9781137019899
• ISBN10: 1137019891
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-07-03
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

The Right of the Protestant Leftexplores the centrality of religious realignment for the development of American and global politics during the past century. It tells the story of the 'Christian Realists' who led the American Protestant left following World War I. As a public theological community with transnational ties, the Realists attacked modern civilization, preached participatory democratic relations, and called for a catholic world Protestantism. In religion as well as in politics, the Realists and their associates at home and abroad proved to be the authentic religious right of their era. Together, they highlighted the conservativism within twentieth-century American liberalism.

Author Biography

Mark Thomas Edwards is an assistant professor of American History at Spring Arbor University.

Table of Contents

'Mark Thomas Edwards reminds us of something too many historians and critics have forgotten about—the centrality in American life of the old Protestant Left. Readers will find here an important reexamination of a once powerful current of ideas and religious orientation. Edwards has done a fine job of reviving interest in such an important constellation of ideas.'—Kevin Mattson, Connor Study Professor of Contemporary History, Ohio University