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With Liberty And Justice For Whom? The Recent Evangelical Debate Over Capitalism (Book Review), Thomas L. Shaffer

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Those who for scholarly or journalistic convenience aggregate hundreds of Christian denominations into four or five "movements" put the radical Christian pacifist Jim Wallis (of Sojourners magazine) and Dr. Jerry Falwell, founder of the Moral Majority, in one theological category. They are both evangelicals, heirs of Calvinism and the Radical Reformation, both practitioners of "conservative Protestant orthodoxy," both believers in the fundamental authority of the Bible.

And, because both of them, and thousands of Christians who follow one or both of them, are trying to respond to the criticism that evangelicalism (or "fundamentalism") neglects social and economic issues, they are …