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I found myself in the unusual position of agreeing with most of what Hart had to say in this book. He evaluates Evangelicalism through the lens of Conservatism (as defined by Edmund Burke and Russel Kirk) and finds Evangelicalism seriously lacking. Hart gives a pretty scathing critique to Evangelicals who idealize America and its founding through religious mythology, and he is able to do this mostly by simply letting their own words speak for themselves and look, frankly, a little silly. Hart also points out that there are a growing number of left-wing evangelicals, and their argument is that Jesus did not propose a conservative ideology for society. Hart seems to agree with much of their case and thus believes the best response is to separate faith and politics. Hart also made a strong point when he took up the tension between public and private. Fundamentalists, politically active as they are, still tend to rely on private claims, private morality, and private ideology, even while in the public sphere. They decry a coherent theory of natural law and right reason. Thus they have a hard time defining a common good. Hart's contention, that the Bible is itself private, is, however, not one that I can share, even if some of its contents are not intended for public policy. At the end of the book Hart questions whether Evangelicalism really even ought to desire to be Conservative. So much of its project is idealistic, after all. Hart thinks that the solution is to adopt his notion of pilgrim faith and to relegate religion to "spiritual" (read: churchy) matters. To those who have read other works by Hart this is a predictable conclusion. Hart does a good job showing that Evangelicalism is not naturally and obviously conservative. He even shows how the Evangelical voice has definitely moved to the center or even the "center-left" of the American spectrum in the last two decades. What he never does, however, is raise the question as to whether Conservatism itself may be open to critique. At no point is the Bible actually brought into the conversation. Indeed, to do so would go against Hart's own proposal. And thus this book ends with little theological value. It is intriguing for historical and even political purposes today, but it does not take up the more basic questions of faith's relationship to reason or whether the current political spectrum may need enlarging or even reconfiguration.

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