MORAL MINORITY: THE EVANGELICAL LEFT IN AN AGE OF CONSERVATISM

Book ID/图书代码： 13567914B70492

English Summary/英文概要： In 1973, nearly a decade before the height of the Moral Majority, a group of progressive activists assembled in a Chicago YMCA to strategize about how to move the nation in a more evangelical direction through political action. When they emerged, the Washington Post predicted that the new evangelical left could "shake both political and religious life in America." The following decades proved the Post both right and wrong—evangelical participation in the political sphere was intensifying, but in the end it was the religious right, not the left, that built a viable movement and mobilized electorally. How did the evangelical right gain a moral monopoly and why were evangelical progressives, who had shown such promise, left behind?

In Moral Minority, the first comprehensive history of the evangelical left, David R. Swartz sets out to answer these questions, charting the rise, decline, and political legacy of this forgotten movement. Though vibrant in the late nineteenth century, progressive evangelicals were in eclipse following religious controversies of the early twentieth century, only to reemerge in the 1960s and 1970s. They stood for antiwar, civil rights, and anticonsumer principles, even as they stressed doctrinal and sexual fidelity. Politically progressive and theologically conservative, the evangelical left was also remarkably diverse, encompassing groups such as Sojourners, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, Evangelicals for Social Action, and the Association for Public Justice. Swartz chronicles the efforts of evangelical progressives who expanded the concept of morality from the personal to the social and showed the way—organizationally and through political activism—to what would become the much larger and more influential evangelical right. By the 1980s, although they had witnessed the election of Jimmy Carter, the nation’s first born-again president, progressive evangelicals found themselves in the political wilderness, riven by identity politics and alienated by a skeptical Democratic Party and a hostile religious right.

In the twenty-first century, evangelicals of nearly all political and denominational persuasions view social engagement as a fundamental responsibility of the faithful. This most dramatic of transformations is an important legacy of the evangelical left.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 1973年，道德多数派高峰的前十年左右，芝加哥基督教青年会团体集合来制定如何通过政治行动将整个民族带入更福音派的方向的策略。当他们出现时，华盛顿邮报预测“新福音派左会动摇美国的政治和宗教生活”。接下来的几十年证实了华盛顿邮报的预测的正确和错误的地方——福音派参与政治方面愈演愈烈，但最终是福音右派而不是左派，他们建立了可行的运动并动员选举。福音右派如何获得道德上的垄断？什么是福音派进步人士？谁表现出这样的承诺，又留下什么？

在《道德少数派》中，大卫•R第一次全面的展示了福音左派的历史。斯沃茨将回答这些问题，展示这个被遗忘的运动的兴起，衰落和政治遗产。虽然在十九世纪末期充满活力， 但继二十世纪初的宗教争议后，进步的福音派依然处于失势，仅在20世纪60年代和70年代重新崛起过。他们主张反战，民权和反消费者原则，他们甚至强调教义和性忠诚。政治上的进步和神学上的保守让福音左派如此与众不同，涵盖的群体有“旅居者”、“国际基督教大学奖学金”、“福音派的社会行动”和“社会公义协会”。斯沃茨记载 了福音进步派的努力，他们将道德理念从个人扩大到社会，并展现了其方式——组织和通过政治行动——这些让福音派变得有更大更强的影响力。到了80年代，虽然他们目睹了全国第一位“重生”总统吉米•卡特的竞选，福音进步派发现自己处在政治的荒野里，被政治身份撕裂，并被怀疑民主党与敌对的宗教右派疏远。

在二十一世纪，几乎所有的政治和宗教信仰的福音派信徒将社会参与视为忠诚的基本责任。这个最引人注目的变革是福音左派的一个重要遗产。(LNL)

Awards/获奖情况：“《道德少数派》是对福音派思想的一个鲜为人知的角落的生动讲述。”——纽约时报

"Moral Minority is a vivid topography of a little-understood corner of evangelical thought."—New York Times

"In this superbly written study, David Swartz offers an excitingly fresh and compelling look at evangelical activists who forged a different ideological path in the age of Nixon and Reagan, one that veered left, away from the rightward trends of their day. Blending big-picture perspective with the colorful insight of biography, Swartz vividly describes his subjects’ gospel of social justice and their struggles to win their church over to this progressive faith. In doing so, he force­fully reminds us that modern evangelicalism is neither monolithic nor static in its political persuasions and quest for impact. As both good history and timely observation, this is an important book."—Darren Dochuk, author of From Bible Belt to Sunbelt: Plain-folk Religion, Grassroots Politics, and the Rise of Evangelical Conservatism

About the Author/作者介绍： 大卫•R•斯沃茨是阿斯伯里大学的历史学助理教授。 他的专业和教学领域包括美国宗教历史，二十世纪的美国政治，全球性宗教，战争与和平的问题。

跟随他的博客http://moralminoritybook.com/了解进步的政治信念。

David R. Swartz is Assistant Professor of History at Asbury University. Areas of expertise and teaching interest include American religious history, twentieth-century American politics, global religion, and issues of war and peace.

Follow his blog on progressive politics and faith at http://moralminoritybook.com/

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