Carl F. H. Henry's Moral Arguments for Evangelical Political Activism

Abstract

1 he rising tide of evangelical political activism refuses to subside. In the late 1980s, several commentators suggested that the wave of evangelical political involvement had crested and was coming to an end.1 They pointed to the poor showing of Pat Robertson in the 1988 presidential election, the demise of the Moral Majority, the cumulative impact of frequent media criticism, and the inability of evangelicals to implement a single major policy in the decade of the 1980s. The pre dictions were wrong. Ralph Reed's launching of the Christian Coali tion, a spate of highly visible state and local battles, and the 1994 midterm elections demonstrate this key Republican Party constituency