Progressive evangelicals and the pursuit of social justice

Abstract

In this compelling history of progressive evangelicalism, Gasaway examines a dynamic though often overlooked movement within American Christianity today. Gasaway focuses on left-leaning groups, such as Sojourners and Evangelicals for Social Action, that emerged in the early 1970s, prior to the rise of the more visible Religious Right. He identifies the distinctive “public theology” —a set of biblical interpretations regarding the responsibility of Christians to promote social justice—that has animated progressive evangelicals’ activism and bound together their unusual combination of political positions.