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An evangelical manifesto.(HEARTS & MINDS)

Publication: Sojourners Magazine
Publication Date: 01-JUL-08
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Thirty-five years ago, I was one of a group of evangelicals who issued a call for the movement to become more involved in social action. The 1973 "Chicago Declaration of Evangelical Social Concern" pledged "to defend the social and economic rights of the poor and oppressed," to "deplore the a...

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...historic involvement of the church in America with racism," and to "'challenge the misplaced trust of the nation in economic and military might--a proud trust that promotes national pathology of war and violence."

It concluded: "'As evangelical Christians committed to the Lord Jesus Christ and the full authority of the Word of God, we affirm that God lays total claim upon the lives of his people. We cannot, therefore, separate our lives from the situation in which God has placed us in the United States and the world. By this declaration, we endorse no political ideology or party, but call our nation's leaders and people to that...

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