{"id":1112,"date":"2013-10-29T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-29T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2013\/10\/jimmy-carter-progressive-evangelicals-and-the-religious-right.html"},"modified":"2013-10-29T09:30:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-29T09:30:00","slug":"jimmy-carter-progressive-evangelicals-and-the-religious-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2013\/10\/jimmy-carter-progressive-evangelicals-and-the-religious-right.html","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Carter, \u201cProgressive\u201d Evangelicals, and the Religious Right"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
Pepperdine University\u2019s Washington, DC program honored the late U.S. Sen. Mark Hatfield (R-Oregon) in a Senate conference room on October 22 with speaker Randall Balmer, historian of evangelicals, Episcopal priest and Chairman of Dartmouth College\u2019s Religion Department. Balmer\u2019s lecture examined the history of evangelicalism\u2019s \u2014 both liberal and conservative \u2014 effect on former President Jimmy Carter\u2019s political success and failures.<\/span><\/div>\n
\u201cHow it is that the very [evangelical] people who helped catapult [Carter] to the White House in 1976 turned so drastically\u2026rapidly against him four years later?\u201d questioned Balmer, who is currently working on a book addressing Carter\u2019s faith and the presidency.<\/span><\/div>\n
Balmer explained that the impetus behind his book really began while he was in college shortly after Carter arrived on the national scene. \u201cHere was someone who claimed to be a born-again Christian and isn\u2019t ashamed to say so, which at that time was a rather new thing, at least for us evangelicals in the Midwest.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
Once, when the former President was asked about faith\u2019s compatibility with politics, Balmer relayed that Carter responded, \u201cI think every one of us in our own lives has inherit conflicts built in as we equate our Christian beliefs with our worldly responsibilities.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
Similarly, \u201cIn positioning himself for the presidential campaign, Carter frequently invoked the vocabulary of evangelicals. As a born-again Christian, he told reporters for the\u00a0National Courier,\u00a0<\/i>\u2018I don\u2019t want anything that is not God\u2019s will for my life.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
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Pepperdine University\u2019s Washington, DC program honored the late U.S. Sen. Mark Hatfield (R-Oregon) in a Senate conference room on October 22 with speaker Randall Balmer, historian of evangelicals, Episcopal priest and Chairman of Dartmouth College\u2019s Religion Department. Balmer\u2019s lecture examined the history of evangelicalism\u2019s \u2014 both liberal and conservative \u2014 effect on former President Jimmy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2251,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nJimmy Carter, \u201cProgressive\u201d Evangelicals, and the Religious Right<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Pepperdine University\u2019s Washington, DC program honored the late U.S. Sen. 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