LEADER 04202nam 2200613 a 450 001 9910782435703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-96668-1 010 $a9786611966683 010 $a0-226-80476-3 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226804767 035 $a(CKB)1000000000579418 035 $a(EBL)408423 035 $a(OCoLC)476229004 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000230519 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11173735 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000230519 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10196855 035 $a(PQKB)11056531 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000122972 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC408423 035 $a(DE-B1597)524931 035 $a(OCoLC)1135579329 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226804767 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL408423 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10265982 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL196668 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000579418 100 $a20071003d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPublic pulpits$b[electronic resource] $eMethodists and mainline churches in the moral argument of public life /$fSteven M. Tipton 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d2007 215 $a1 online resource (574 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-80474-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [533]-545) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tIntroduction -- $tI. Contesting Church and Society -- $tII. Witnessing versus Winning in Washington -- $tConclusion -- $tNotes -- $tSelected Bibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aSince the 2000 presidential election, debate over the role of religion in public life has followed a narrow course as pundits and politicians alike have focused on the influence wielded by conservative Christians. But what about more mainstream Christians? Here, Steven M. Tipton examines the political activities of Methodists and mainline churches in this groundbreaking investigation into a generation of denominational strife among church officials, lobbyists, and activists. The result is an unusually detailed and thoughtful account that upends common stereotypes while asking searching questions about the contested relationship between church and state. Documenting a wide range of reactions to two radically different events-the invasion of Iraq and the creation of the faith-based initiatives program-Tipton charts the new terrain of religious and moral argument under the Bush administration from Pat Robertson to Jim Wallis. He then turns to the case of the United Methodist Church, of which President Bush is a member, to uncover the twentieth-century history of their political advocacy, culminating in current threats to split the Church between liberal peace-and-justice activists and crusaders for evangelical renewal. Public Pulpits balances the firsthand drama of this internal account with a meditative exploration of the wider social impact that mainline churches have had in a time of diverging fortunes and diminished dreams of progress. An eminently fair-minded and ethically astute analysis of how churches keep moral issues alive in politics, Public Pulpits delves deep into mainline Protestant efforts to enlarge civic conscience and cast clearer light on the commonweal and offers a masterly overview of public religion in America. 606 $aChristianity and politics$zUnited States 610 $areligion, politics, christianity, methodists, mainline churches, moral majority, denominational strife, church and state, faith-based initiatives, iraq, invasion, war on terror, nonfiction, jim wallis, pat robertson, bush, united methodist, advocacy, political science, protestant, prophetic witness, good news movement, faith, freedom, civil liberties, ird, religious lobbies, ecumenical, interfaith, ecclesiology. 615 0$aChristianity and politics 676 $a261.70973 700 $aTipton$b Steven M$01584476 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910782435703321 996 $aPublic pulpits$93868323 997 $aUNINA