1st Edition

Godly Seed American Evangelicals Confront Birth Control, 1873-1973

By Allan C. Carlson Copyright 2012
172 Pages
by Routledge

180 Pages
by Routledge

180 Pages
by Routledge

Interview with Allan Carlson In an ironic twist, American evangelical leaders are joining mainstream acceptance of contraception. Godly Seed: American Evangelicals Confront Birth Control, 1873-1973 , examines how mid-twentieth-century evangelical leaders eventually followed the mainstream into a quiet embrace of contraception, complemented by a brief acceptance of abortion. It places this... Read more
Acknowledgments, Introduction: Th e Christians and Birth Control, 1. Comstockery and Contraception, 2. “Race Suicide” in the Righteous Republic, 3. Margaret Sanger Divides the Christians, 4. Birth Control in the Age of Billy Graham, 5. Return of the Gnostics, Index

Biography

Allan C. Carlson