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Evangelical vs. Liberal - The Clash of Christian Cultures in the Pacific Northwest (Paperback)
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Evangelical vs. Liberal - The Clash of Christian Cultures in the Pacific Northwest (Paperback)
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The cultural conflict that increasingly divides American society is
particularly evident within Protestant Christianity. Liberals and
evangelicals clash in bitter competition for the future of their
respective subcultures. In this book, James Wellman examines this
conflict as it is played out in the American Northwest.
Drawing on an in-depth study of twenty-four of the area's
fastest-growing evangelical churches and ten vital liberal
Protestant congregations, Wellman captures the leading trends of
each group and their interaction with the wider American culture.
He finds a remarkable depth of disagreement between the two groups
on almost every front.
Where evangelicals are willing to draw sharp lines on gay marriage
and abortion, liberals complain about evangelical
self-righteousness and disregard for personal freedoms. Liberals
prefer the moral power of inclusiveness, while evangelicals frame
their moral stances as part of a metaphysical struggle between good
and evil. The entrepreneurial nature of evangelicalism translates
into support of laissez-faire capitalism and democratic political
advocacy. Liberals view both policies with varying degrees of
apprehension. Such differences are significant on a national scale,
with implications for the future of American Protestantism in
particular and American culture in general.
Both groups act in good faith and with good intentions, and each
maintains a moral core that furthers its own identity, ideology,
ritual, mission, and politics. In some situations, they share
similar attitudes despite having different beliefs. Attending
church services and interviewing senior pastors, lay leaders and
new members, Wellman is able toprovide new insights into the
convenient categories of "liberal" and "evangelical," the nature of
the conflict, and the myriad ways both groups affect and are
affected by American culture.
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