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DiIulio, John, 380–81

disobedience.
See
obedience

Dobson, James, 259, 295

Domenici, Pete, 18

domestic politics, 181–204, 257–84

The Blob
film and, 181–83

Bill Bright, Campus Crusade, and, 225–27

Sam Brownback and, 260–72

Frank Carlson and Dwight Eisenhower’s presidential election, 183–95

Hillary Clinton and, 272–77

Charles Colson, cultural politics, and, 227–36

electoral politics of George W. Bush and, 383, 385

elite fundamentalism and, 277–79

faith-based initiatives and, 274–75, 379–86

Family/Fellowship influence in, 198–204, 257–60

first Presidential Prayer Breakfast, 195–98 (
see also
National Prayer Breakfast)

Jesus plus nothing theology and, 29–30, 283–84

nonpartisan Prayer Breakfast meetings and, 139–40 (
see also
Prayer Breakfast meetings)

dominionism, 44

Dore, John, 118–20

Dorn, William Jennings Bryan, 220

doubt, absence of, 48–51

Douglass, Walter, 109–11

Douthat, Ross, 347–48, 429n Doyle, Clyde, 168

Dunbar, Matt, 324–27, 332, 334–35

Duncan, James, 140–41

Durenberger, David, 26

Duvalier, François “Papa Doc,” 215–16

 

 

 

East Timor, Suharto and, 246–52

Edwards, Jonathan, 56–72, 401n

American fundamentalism and, 7–9, 58–61

culture war and, 289

experimental religion of, 68–71

Charles Grandison Finney vs., 77, 79–81

Abigail Hutchinson’s conversion to true religion of, 61–68

Jesus Christ of, 5

Jesus plus nothing theology and, 56–58

Abram Vereide vs., 87, 113

Eisenhower, Dwight, 185, 187–89, 192–98, 413–14n, 416n

Eldredge, John, 330

electoral politics, 119, 145, 192–95, 383, 385.
See also
domestic

politics

elite fundamentalism.
See also
American fundamentalism

American fascism and, 121–24 (
see also
American fascism)

of Frank Buchman, 124–30, 405–6n

of Charles Colson, 235–36

of Family/Fellowship, 43–44, 57–58 (
see also
Family/Fellowship)

international capitalism and, 306 (
see also
biblical capitalism)

internationalist ambitions of, 152–53

(
see also
Cold War anticommunism; foreign politics; German fascism)

Jesus Christ of, 5

merging of populist fundamentalism and, 262, 372–73, 377, 381, 385–86

National Prayer Breakfast and, 195–98 (
see also
National Prayer Breakfast)

Popular Front culture war and, 287–90 (
see also
Christian educational movement; New Life Church; sexual purity movement)

populist fundamentalism vs., 7–8, 277 (
see also
populist fundamentalism) suffering, salvation, deliverance, and, 370–87

of Abram Vereide (
see
Vereide, Abraham [Abram])

El Salvador, 25, 367, 400

Ellingwood, Herb, 398n

Elson, Edward L. R., 184

empire, 3–4, 57, 69, 183, 191, 228, 233, 288–90, 336, 343, 386

Engle v. Vitale
case, 225

Enlightenment rationalism, 338, 366–67

Ensign, John, 18

Enzi, Mike, 18

ethics, 44, 113, 130, 156, 230.
See also
accountability

Ethiopia, 25, 215, 248, 280–81

European fascism, 121–23, 129–33.
See also
German fascism evangelicalism, 43, 73, 173, 386

evangelism

American history of, 336–39

Frank Buchman on, 125

defined, 7

Jonathan Edwards and, 62–68, 70–71

Jonathan Edwards vs. Charles

Grandison Finney on, 77

Charles Grandison Finney and, 73–74, 77–83

stealth, 190

Abram Vereide and, 97–98

Everson v. Board of Education
case, 357, 361

Every Home for Christ, 295
Every Man’s Battle
(book series), 330–33

Exodus International, 331

exurban movement, 309–12

 

 

 

Faith and Action in the Nation’s Capital, 257

faith-based initiatives, 233, 236, 274–75, 379–86

Falwell, Jerry, 7–8, 258, 346–47

Family/Fellowship

as avant-garde of American fundamentalism, 2–5, 122 (
see also
American fundamentalism; elite fundamentalism)

Doug Coe as leader of (
see
Coe, Doug)

documents and history of, 60–61

fascism and (
see
American fascism; German fascism)

financial principles of, 45

financial support and, 16, 22

Dick Foth as leader of, 21, 385

International Christian Leadership (ICL) and, 8, 21, 123–24, 163, 166, 191

Ivanwald and, 1–2, 18–27 (
see also
Ivanwald)

Jesus plus nothing theology of (
see
Jesus plus nothing theology)

David Kuo and salvation theology of, 379–86

mission statement of, 19

National Prayer Breakfast of, 22–26

(
see also
National Prayer Breakfast; Prayer Breakfast meetings)

politics of, 6–7 (
see also
domestic politics; foreign politics; politics; theocracy)

Popular Front culture war and, 287–90 (
see also
Christian educational movement; New Life Church; sexual purity movement)

power of, 257–60 (
see also
power) renaming of Fellowship as Family, 239

Abram Vereide as founder of (
see
Vereide, Abraham)

Farrell, James Augustine, 96–97, 130

fascism, 130, 137.
See also
American fascism; European fascism; German fascism; theocracy

Federer, William J., 338–39, 356, 364

Fellowship.
See
Family/Fellowship Fellowship Foundation, 22

feminism, 20, 213–14, 269.
See also
women

Ferguson, Homer, 198–99

Fernández, José Joaquín Trejos, 220

films, 181–83, 196, 203–4, 320

Finding the Better Way
(Fellowship pamphlet), 138–40, 142

Finney, Charles Grandison, 73–83

anxious bench innovation of, 80–83

conversion of, 74–77

Jonathan Edwards vs., 77, 79–81

evangelism of, 7–8, 73–74

Jesus Christ of, 5, 87

Abram Vereide vs., 113

Fisk, Kyle, 299

Fitzsimmons, Frank “Fitz,” 231

Flanders, Ralph E., 190, 200–201

Focus on the Family, 259, 273, 295

Folger, James A., 105

follower of Christ (terminology), 2, 372

Ford, Gerald, 19, 230, 246–47, 250

Ford, Henry, 122–23, 126, 130

Ford, John, 203–4

foreign affairs, 205–40.
See also
Worldwide Spiritual Offensive

abstinence programs and, 328–29

Doug Coe’s succession to Family/Fellowship leadership and, 210–18

compassionate conservatism and, 236–40

faith-based initiatives and, 236, 384

Richard Halverson and, 208–10

international subversion strategy and, 218–24

Charles Malik, United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and, 224–25

Clifton Robinson and, 205–8

Somalia case and, 279–84

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