Social Justice Goes to Church: The New Left in Modern American Evangelicalism answers, from a historical perspective, the vital question, “Why are American evangelicals moving Left?”
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Justin (verified owner) –
A timely book! Glad to have a clear perspective on the new religion taking America by storm. Would recommend.
Jake G (verified owner) –
If you are a politically conservative Christian like I am, you will find this book enjoyable, pithy, and eye opening. Brother Harris does a wonderful job at documenting how the New Left (or far left as I would put it) rose to power, fell, and rose back to power by seeping its claws into mainstream evangelicalism. This book exposes the ideologies of the founders of the evangelical left like Ron Sider, Jim Wallis, Richard Mouw, Wes Grandberg-Michaelson, and many others all without being condescending. While it seems that the synchronization of Marxism, liberation theology, and Christianity is a recent phenomenon, readers will learn that it has been going on for decades in Christian academia and some of our churches. The roots of the evangelical left are deep, and it’s time that the body of Christ learned where they came from.
Overall, if you want to combat the evangelical left as a layman, pastor, or just as an individual congregant, this book will tell you where and when this ideology came about.
Pros
– Offers a sufficient history of the evangelical left in about 170 pages
– Explains the ideology of the evangelical left without being condescending or mean-spirited
– Relevant
Cons
– The term “new left” may not be immediately recognizable even for people who are well informed politically