Sentences with phrase «christian social activism»
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Obama is a progressive Christian who blends the emotional fire of the African - American church, the ecumenical outlook of contemporary Protestantism, and the activism of the Social Gospel, a late 19th - century movement whose leaders faulted American churches for focusing too much on personal salvation while ignoring the conditions that led to pervasive poverty.
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Hunter notes that on the edges of evangelicalism are some for whom «social and political activism is redefined as the essential Christian act.»