{"product_id":"republican-theology-benjamin-t-lynerd-9780199363568","title":"Republican Theology: The Civil Religion of American Evangelicals","description":"White evangelicals occupy strange property on the ideological map in America, exhibiting a pronounced commitment to the principle of limited government, and yet making a significant exception for issues relating to personal morality - an exception many observers take to be paradoxical at best. Explanations of this phenomenon usually point to the knotty political alliance evangelicals built with free-market types in the late twentieth century, but sermonic evidence suggests a deeper and longer intellectual thread, one that has pervaded evangelical thought all the way back to the American founding. \u003cbr\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eRepublican Theology\u003c\/em\u003e, Benjamin Lynerd offers an historical and theological account of the hybrid position evangelicals have long affected to hold in American culture - as champions of individual liberty \u003cem\u003eand\u003c\/em\u003e as guardians of American morality. Lynerd documents the development of a resilient, if problematic, tradition in American political thought, one that sees a free republic, a virtuous people, and an assertive Christianity as mutually dependent. Situating the recent rise of the \"New Right\" within this larger framework, \u003cem\u003eRepublican Theology\u003c\/em\u003e traces the contentious political journey of evangelicals from its earliest moments, laying bare the conceptual tensions built into their civil religion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Benjamin T. Lynerd\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0199363560\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199363568\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 260\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.78lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.28h x 6.33w x 0.69d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2015 pg. 1405","brand":"Benjamin T. Lynerd","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45478322798847,"sku":"9780199363568","price":45.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_36594cfd-59b3-497e-aa06-133cab598e8f.jpg?v=1715934925","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/republican-theology-benjamin-t-lynerd-9780199363568","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}