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Book SynopsisFor God and Globe recovers the history of an important yet largely forgotten intellectual movement in interwar America. Michael G. Thompson explores the way radical-left and ecumenical Protestant internationalists articulated new understandings of the ethics of international relations between the 1920s and the 1940s. Missionary leaders such as Sherwood Eddy and journalists such as Kirby Page, as well as realist theologians including Reinhold Niebuhr, developed new kinds of religious enterprises devoted to producing knowledge on international relations for public consumption. For God and Globe centers on the excavation of two such effortsthe leading left-wing Protestant interwar periodical, The World Tomorrow, and the landmark Oxford 1937 ecumenical world conference. Thompson charts the simultaneous peak and decline of the movement in John Foster Dulles''s ambitious efforts to link Christian internationalism to the cause of international organization after World
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For God and the Globe is a careful study of another yet-unexplored period of the role of religion in American life. It sets a high standard as a defining work for the interwar ecumenical movement.
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Table of ContentsIntroduction: Missionaries, Mainliners, and the Making of a MovementPart I. Radical Christian Internationalism at The World Tomorrow1. Anti-imperialism for Jesus2. The World Tomorrow as a Foreign Policy Counterpublic3. A Funeral and Two LegaciesPart II. Ecumenical Christian Internationalism at Oxford4. All God's Household5. Race, Nation, and Globe at Oxford 19376. Oxford’s Atlantic Crossing7. The Dulles Commission, the UN, and the Americanization of Christian InternationalismConclusion: Neglected GenealogiesNotes
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