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Author Edgar, Robert, 1943-2013.

Title Middle Church : reclaiming the moral values of the faithful majority from the religious right / Bob Edgar.

Publication Info. New York : Simon & Schuster, [2006]
©2006

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 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  277.3083 EDGAR    Check Shelf
Description viii, 258 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [239]-246) and index.
Contents The two churches: faith based on love- or faith grounded in fear? -- In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth...so stop messing them up! -- What part of "blessed are the peacemakers" don't they understand? -- Deny them their victory: faith in the age of terrorism -- We're the good guys- let's act like it! -- Reconciling Abraham's children: toward peace in the Middle East -- Compassion, not contempt: hearing God's call to love the poor -- A living wage: Washington's callous antipathy to the least of these -- The poverty that kills: hunger, injustice, and AIDS: our global moral crisis -- Changing our beatitudes: guideposts for deep-water citizenship.
Subject Christianity and politics -- United States.
Church and state -- United States.
United States -- Religion.
United States -- Moral conditions.
Progressivism (United States politics)
Religious right -- United States.
ISBN 0743289498
9780743289498
Standard No. 9780743289498
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