Church, State and American Evangelicalism: A Political Missiology for the Poor
How should the American church tackle domestic poverty, and how should US faith-based aid organizations approach the change process in developing countries? These questions about aspects of the church in mission are best answered in light of a wider historical debate about the relationship between c...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2019]
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Mission studies
Year: 2019, Volume: 36, Issue: 1, Pages: 84-104 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
USA
/ Evangelical movement
/ State
/ Poverty
/ Struggle against
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| IxTheo Classification: | KBQ North America KDD Protestant Church NCE Business ethics SA Church law; state-church law |
| Further subjects: | B
Ethics
B Poverty B NGO B Public Theology B Development B US evangelicalism B Church and state B Political Theology |
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| Summary: | How should the American church tackle domestic poverty, and how should US faith-based aid organizations approach the change process in developing countries? These questions about aspects of the church in mission are best answered in light of a wider historical debate about the relationship between church and state. In this article, I explore the history of this relationship and argue that the radical separation of church and state favored by conservative evangelicals in the United States, harms the disadvantaged both domestically and abroad. Just as governments should not abrogate their responsibility to the poor, Christian institutions should not shrink from their God-given task of holding secular, political authorities to account. |
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| ISSN: | 1573-3831 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Mission studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15733831-12341619 |