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The Evangelical left is a Christian left movement in Evangelical Christianity that affirms conservative evangelical theology and are politically progressive. It is mainly based in the US, but is also found in Latin America.
Doctrine
The movement affirms conservative evangelical theology, such as the doctrines of the incarnation, atonement, and resurrection, opposition to gay marriage, and viewing the Bible as the primary authority for the Church. Unlike other evangelicals, those on the evangelical left often support and utilize modern biblical exegesis. They often support a more progressive political platform and are concerned about issues of social justice. Many, for example, are opposed to capital punishment and are supportive of gun control, welfare programs and welcoming foreigners. In many cases, they are also pacifists.
History
The origins of the movement are located in the 16th century in the Anabaptist movement which fought against The Establishment and campaigned for democracy. Other movements were significant, such as Abolitionism in the United Kingdom of the 18th century and Abolitionism in the United States of the 19th century. Some evangelicals have campaigned for women's rights, such as pastoral ordination and right to vote.
Due to the fundamentalist controversy of the early 20th century, the movement and social activism lost momentum. In the late 1940s, evangelical theologians from Fuller Theological Seminary founded in Pasadena, California, in 1947, championed the Christian importance of social activism. It experienced a new impetus in the 1960s with the foundation of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957, led by Baptist pastor Martin Luther King Jr.
During the 1960s and 1970s, the evangelical left stood for antiwar, civil rights, and anti-consumption principles while supporting doctrinal fidelity and conservative sexual morals. Sojourners magazine, founded in 1971, has been an important voice of the movement. In 1973, 53 evangelical leaders signed The Chicago Declaration of Evangelical Social Concern, which contributed to the foundation of Evangelicals for Social Action. The evangelical left had influence in electing the first born-again U.S. president, Jimmy Carter, in 1976.
21st century
In 2007, the organization Red-Letter Christians was founded by Tony Campolo and Shane Claiborne with the aim of bringing together evangelicals who believe in the importance of insisting on issues of social justice mentioned by Jesus (in red in some translations of the Bible).
The election of Donald Trump in 2016 led to a resurgence of the evangelical left against some of his policies. Some evangelical Christians see the phrase as political and have since changed how they name themselves.
See also
Christian anarchism
Christian left
Christian socialism
Evangelical environmentalism
Liberal Christianity
Progressive Christianity
Red-Letter Christians
Social Gospel
Sojourners
References
Further reading
Edwards, Mark Thomas (2012). The Right of the Protestant Left: God's Totalitarianism. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-137-01989-9.
Gasaway, Brantley W. (2014). Progressive Evangelicals and the Pursuit of Social Justice. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
Hauerwas, Stanley; Willimon, William (1989). Resident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony. ISBN 0-687-36159-1.
MacGregor, Kirk (2007). A Molinist-Anabaptist Systematic Theology. ISBN 978-0-7618-3851-7.
Swartz, David R. (2012). Moral Minority: The Evangelical Left in an Age of Conservatism. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0-8122-2306-4.
Wallis, Jim (11 January 2005). God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It. ISBN 0-06-055828-8.
Young, Shawn David (Summer 2010). "From Hippies to Jesus Freaks: Christian Radicalism in Chicago's Inner-City". Journal of Religion and Popular Culture. 22 (2): 3. doi:10.3138/jrpc.22.2.003. Archived from the original on 2010-09-11.
Young, Shawn David (2015). Gray Sabbath: Jesus People USA, the Evangelical Left, and the Evolution of Christian Rock. New York: Columbia University Press.
External links
Social Redemption Archived 2006-09-24 at the Wayback Machine
The Christian Left - An Open Fellowship of Progressive Christians
Red Letter Christians US
Red Letter Christians UK
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