The Right of the Protestant Left

While serving as an introduction to ecumenical liberal Protestantism and the social gospel over the course of the twentieth century-focused especially on the 'Christian Realist' years from 1930-1960 - this work also highlights certain totalitarian as well as more fundamental conservative tendencies [...]
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While serving as an introduction to ecumenical liberal Protestantism and the social gospel over the course of the twentieth century-focused especially on the 'Christian Realist' years from 1930-1960 - this work also highlights certain totalitarian as well as more fundamental conservative tendencies within those movements. It is generally recognized that much of American conservatism after World War II represented efforts to defend what was once called liberalism. Whether or not the opposite holds true, that twentieth-century welfare liberals have more in common with Edmund Burke than Karl Marx, has not been addressed. This book thus seeks to outline an alternative conservative tradition arising during the Progressive era and becoming more definite after World War I thanks in large part to the work of liberal theologians.