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Abortion and America's Churches: A Religious History of Roe V. Wade

Abortion and America's Churches: A Religious History of Roe V. Wade

Williams, Daniel K.

Hardcover

Series: Faith, Governance, and Civil Society in American History

General ChristianityGeneral SociologyGeneral United States History

Publisher Price: $35.00

ISBN10: 0268210454
ISBN13: 9780268210458
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: Oct 1 2025
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.70
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

Abortion and America's Churches explores the surprising history of how American Christians think about abortion.

Many people assume that Christians have steadfastly condemned abortion throughout the United States's history. Daniel K. Williams overthrows all assumptions about the unity, consistency, or simplicity of American Christian thought and belief in this groundbreaking new book. He demonstrates that churches in the United States have fought among themselves and with the wider culture as they developed and enforced their stance on abortion, revealing major struggles to define their often-changing positions. Far from a cynical exercise of political interest, changes and disagreements arose from serious theological considerations informed by each tradition's approach to the faith. These theological shifts--and corresponding shifts in interreligious political alliances--led to the changing fortunes of Roe v. Wade.

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