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The relationship between Christianity and politics is a historically complex subject and a frequent source of disagreement throughout the history of Christianity, as well as in modern politics between the Christian right and Christian left.
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The Christian right, otherwise referred to as the religious right, are Christian political factions characterized by their strong support of socially conservative and traditionalist policies. [1] [2] Christian conservatives seek to influence politics and public policy with their interpretation of the teachings of Christianity. [3] [4] [5]
Christian democracy is an ideology inspired by Christian social teaching to respond to the challenges of contemporary society and politics. [1] [2] Christian democracy has drawn mainly from Catholic social teaching [3] [4] and neo-scholasticism, [5] [6] [7] as well as the Neo-Calvinist tradition within Christianity; [8] [9] it later gained ...
Twice this week my Twitter feed has been roiled over basic, long-established aspects of the world's largest religion. Both controversies were instructive glimpses into the status of faith in ...
Boyer, John W. (2001), "Catholics, Christians, and the Challenges of Democracy: The Heritage of the Nineteenth Century", Christian Democracy in 20th Century Europe, Böhlau Verlag, ISBN 3-205-99360-8; Cary, Noel D. (1996). The Path to Christian Democracy: German Catholics and the Party System from Windthorst to Adenauer. Harvard University Press.
The Social Gospel was a Christian movement that emerged in late 19th-century America as a response to the obscene levels of inequality in a rapidly industrializing country.
Hirschl, Thomas A., et al. "Politics, religion, and society: Is the United States experiencing a period of religious-political polarization?." Review of European Studies 4.4 (2012): 95+ online Archived 2018-01-27 at the Wayback Machine; Jensen, Richard J. The Winning of the Midwest: Social and Political Conflict, 1888-1896 (1971) online free