{"product_id":"9780199398188","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. In \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.","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47119940452592,"sku":"9780199398188","price":45.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780199398188_p0.jpg?v=1763669926","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780199398188","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}