{"product_id":"the-fervent-embrace-liberal-protestants-evangelicals-and-israel-9780814741047","title":"The Fervent Embrace  Liberal Protestants Evangelicals and Israel","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChronicles the American Christian relationship with Israel, tracing first mainline Protestant and then evangelical support for Zionism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Just as liberal and conservative Protestants embraced Israel at different points in the twentieth-century, so, too, will readers embrace this book for its well-written and captivating account of American Protestant support for Israel.\" * American Jewish History *\u003cbr\u003e\"A pioneering history\" * American Historical Review *\u003cbr\u003e\"TheFervent Embrace is the product of remarkable research and shows a commendable mastery and balance. A welcome contribution.\" -- Stephen Spector,Stony Brook University\u003cbr\u003e\"\"Deeply researched, insightful, and sharply focused, The Fervent Embrace appears at a time when foreign\/international relations history is waking up to the crucial importance of religion in shaping policy. Carenens cutting-edge, discerning analysis will prove valuable to scholars and students of foreign relations history, domestic politics, and religious studies.\" -- Frank Castigliola,University of Connecticut\u003cbr\u003e\"Highly recommended [for] all academic levels\/libraries.\" * CHOICE *\u003cbr\u003e\"The Fervent Embrace takes a broad approach that sweeps up not simply evangelicals but also, most intriguingly, the mainline church...The Fervent Embrace is to be commended as thorough and evenhanded.\" * Christianity Today *\u003cbr\u003e\"Carenen tells this complex story of shifting Protestant allegiances evenhandedly and, more often than not, with clarity [...] she is especially thorough in her survey of mainline Protestants.\" * Christian Century *\u003cbr\u003e\"Carenen's book is particularly welcome as a call for seeing more complexity in the history of American Protestants' views of Zionism.\" * H-Net Reviews *\u003cbr\u003e\"This will be the definitive account.\" * Politics and Religion *\u003cbr\u003e\"Stellar...With clarity of purpose and a keen eye for colorful detail and big picture significance, Carenen manages to offer historians a deeply textured and compelling assessment of this vital yet understudies dimension of religion and politics in the twentieth-century United States.\" * Journal of American History *\u003cbr\u003e\"Carenen tells a compelling and well-documented story. She has done a service to those who study American attitudes toward Israel and Christian-Jewish relations with this complex narrative.\" * The American Jewish Archives Journal *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments      Introduction      List of Abbreviations      1 American Protestants and Jewish Persecution, 1933-1937      2 American Protestants Respond to Zionism and the Jewish      Genocide in Europe, 1938-1948     Case Study 1.      The Myth of Christian Intervention, Christian Guilt,     and the Martin Niemoller Controversy     3 The Challenges of Statehood, 1948-1953      4 Political and Theological Dissent, 1953-1967      Case Study 2.      \"Of course, down in Virginia, you do have to     worry about Southern Baptists\": Samuel Newman,     American Protestants, and Post-World War II     Jewish-Christian Dialogue     5 The Tide Turns, 1967-1973   Case Study 3.   The Individual and the U.S.-Israeli Alliance:     Ursula Niebuhr, the Jerusalem Committee, and     Christians Concerned for Israel     viii | Contents     6 A New U.S.-Israeli Alliance, 1973-1979      7 The Political and Religious Landscape Shifts, 1980-2008      Notes      Selected Bibliography      Index      About the Author","brand":"MI - New York University","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51926126362967,"sku":"9780814741047","price":42.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780814741047.jpg?v=1760622237","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-fervent-embrace-liberal-protestants-evangelicals-and-israel-9780814741047","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}