Wednesday, 14 May 2008

Freston

"This relative lack of cultural and educational resources, together with the institutional fissiparity of the evangelical world, has made it difficult to develop a tradition of social thought, much less any sort of normative social doctrine." 1(272)

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points to plurality within the evangelical community in reference to politics 2(272)

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"Several elements recur frequently in Latin American evangelical politics: the vulnerability to corruption; the desire for religious equality in the public sphere; the importance of electoral systems in determining modes and degrees of evangelical participation." (3

1P Freston, 'Evangelicalism and Politics in Latin America', Transformation 19:4 (2002), 271275, 272.

2P Freston, 'Evangelicalism and Politics in Latin America', Transformation 19:4 (2002), 271275, 272.

3P Freston, 'Evangelicalism and Politics in Latin America', Transformation 19:4 (2002), 271275, 273.

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