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Evangelical Christianity and conventional politics are today seen as inseparable. But when Jimmy Carter, a Democrat and a born-again Christian, acquired the presidency in 1976, he owed his triumph in part to American evangelicals, who taken care of immediately his available religiosity and his rejection of the moral personal bankruptcy of the Nixon Administration. Carter, running on your behalf of the brand new South, articulated a progressive strand of American Christianity that championed liberal ideals, racial equality, and social justice - one that has almost been overlooked since. In Redeemer, acclaimed religious historian Randall Balmer shows how the rise and show up of Jimmy Carter's politics fortunes mirrored the transformation of American religious politics. From his origins as a humble peanut farmer to the galvanizing politician who rode a reenergized religious movement in to the White House, Carter's life and career mark him as the last great amount in America's long and venerable history of progressive evangelicalism. Although he stumbled early in his career - courting segregationists during his second advertising campaign for Georgia governor - Carter's run for president marked a return to the progressive guidelines of his faith and helped reenergize the evangelical activity. Responding to his meaning of racial justice, women's privileges, and matter for the plight of the indegent, evangelicals in the united states helped propel Carter to office. Yet four years later, those very same voters left behind him for Ronald Reagan and the Republican Party. Carter's beat signaled the eclipse of progressive evangelicalism and the rise of the Religious Right, which popularized a considerably different understanding of the faith, one rooted in nationalism, individualism, and free-market capitalism. An illuminating biography in our 39th president, Redeemer presents Jimmy Carter as the last great standard-bearer of an important strand of American Christianity, and an original and riveting consideration of the occasions that altered our political scenery in the 1970s and 1980s.
