by Jeff Sharlet
European fascism and, 121, 130–33
Merwin Hart and, 189–90
Arthur Langlie and, 114–21
New Deal reversal and, 141–43
theocracy and, 121–24 (see also theocracy)
Abram Vereide’s labor-management reconciliation and, 137–41
American fundamentalism
Cold War anticommunism and (see Cold War anticommunism)
defined, 3–4, 393n
Jonathan Edwards and (see Edwards,
Jonathan) elite vs. populist, 7–9 (see also elite fundamentalism; populist fundamentalism)
Family/Fellowship as the avantgarde of, 2–5 (see also Family/Fellowship)
fascism and (see American fascism; German fascism)
Charles Grandison Finney and (see Finney, Charles Grandison)
Jesus Christs of, 5 (see also Jesus Christ)
myths of liberalism vs., 371, 386–87
politics and (see democracy; politics; theocracy)
Popular Front culture war of, 287–90 (see also Christian educational movement; New Life Church; sexual purity movement)
suffering, salvation, deliverance, and, 370–87
Abram Vereide and (see Vereide, Abraham [Abram])
Americans United for Separation of Church and State, 265
American Values, 259
Anderson, Lisa, 319–21
Angleton, James Jesus, 206
Angola, 222
anti-abortion crusade. See abortion issue
anticommunism. See Cold War anticommunism
anti-intellectualism, 172–73, 347
anti-Semitism. See also German fascism; Jewish people
Bruce Barton on Hitler’s, 136
Christian Embassy and, 353
Gustav Adolf Gedat’s, 164
Merwin Hart’s, 124, 412n
Abram Vereide and Henry Ford’s, 122–24
anti-sex trafficking legislation, 274–75
anxious bench, 80–83
Apelian, Bill, 342
Apostolidis, Paul, 234, 421n
Arafat, Yasir, 245
arap Moi, Daniel, 281–82
Arendt, Hannah, 144, 386
Armenia, 267
Armstrong, O. K., 168, 411n
Arterburn, Stephen, 330–31
Ashcroft, John, 21, 258, 380–81, 385
authoritarianism, American. See American fascism avant-garde, 3, 122
Azerbaijan, 266–67
Baker, James, 25, 46, 58
Baker, Susan, 273
Bakke, Dennis, 23, 273, 397n
Bakke, Eileen, 273, 329
Bakker, Jim, 322
Barre, Siad, 222, 279–84
Barton, Bruce, 133–37, 141–42
Barton, David, 342
Batista, Fulgencio, 184–85
Bauer, Gary, 259, 381–82
Beck, Dave, 99–100, 119
Begin, Menachem, 24
Bell, James F., 21, 227–28
Benham, Flip, 357–58, 363–65
Benin, 28
Bennett, Charles E., 199, 204
Bermuda retreat, 32
Bevere, Lisa, 333–34
Bible
biblical scholarship and, 135
biblical worldview and, 350
Sam Brownback and, 267–68
murderers in, 222
smuggling, 185–86, 306–7
biblical capitalism. See also capitalism
Doug Coe and, 217
faith-based initiatives, 382–83
Henry Ford and, 122–23
Ted Haggard and, 304–7
religious market economics and, 312–15
theonomy as, 191
Abram Vereide and, 104–5
Billy Graham Center Archives, 60–61
Billy Graham Crusade, 152
Black, Hugo, 361
Black Buffers, 238–39
Blob, The (film), 181–83, 204
Bob Jones University Press, 342, 428n
Body of Christ, 21, 255–56
Bratt, James D., 429n
Brazil, 24, 222
breakfast meetings. See National Prayer Breakfast; prayer breakfast meetings
Bredesen, Harald, 186
Brewster, Ralph, 138
Bridges, Harry, 99–109, 120, 203, 289
Bright, Bill, 216, 225–27, 353, 380
Broger, John C., 155, 202–4
brotherhood, 40–41, 216, 254
Brownback, Sam, 260–72
career of, and Values Action Team, 263–69
Catholicism of, 261–63
Hillary Clinton’s collaboration with, 274–75
diplomacy of, 269–70
Family/Fellowship and, 18, 20
Republican revolution and, 260–61
sexual purity movement and, 328
Brown v. Board of Education case, 361
Bryan, William Jennings, 5, 236
Buchman, Frank, 124–30, 134, 154, 178, 405n, 406n
Burns, Arthur, 230
Burton, Linda and Aaron Michael, 307–9
Bush, George H. W., 25–26, 58, 223
Bush, George W., 22, 58–59, 294–95, 379–86
business, 122, 133–37. See also capitalism; management
Buthelezi, Mangosuthu, 24, 242
Byrnes, Jimmy, 159
Cabaniss, Ed, 189–90
Campus Crusade, 152, 216, 225–27, 247, 353, 362, 380 396n
Capehart, Homer, 168–69, 176, 215
capitalism. See also management
biblical (see biblical capitalism)
Dwight Eisenhower and, 185
Ted Haggard and, 304–7
labor unions and, 99–108
religious market economics and, 312–15
theocracy and, 382–83
Abram Vereide on, 190
Carlson, Bengt, 2, 17, 30–32, 36, 47–51
Carlson, Frank, 155, 174, 186–98, 200, 204–5, 215, 219–20, 263–64, 408n
Carmichael, Stokely, 238
Carter, Jimmy, 24, 367, 400n Carter, John, 354
Casanova, Carlos Eugenios Vides, 25
Caslen, Bob, 354
Castle Mainau conference, 174–77
Castro, Fidel, 184–85, 380, 413n
Catholicism, 97, 261–62, 269, 307, 323, 381
Catton, Jack, 354
Cedars
author’s prayer meeting at, 32–33
Hillary Clinton at, 272–73
Doug Coe and, 26
Ivanwald and, 6, 15–16 (see also Ivanwald)
prayer meetings at, 27–29, 53, 245, 251, 398n (see also prayer breakfast meetings)
theology of, 45
celibacy. See sexual purity movement
cells (core groups). See also prayer groups
Frank Buchman, Abram Vereide, and inspiration for, 127–29
Family/Fellowship and, 19–20, 44–47
foreign politics and, 162
New Life Church and, 305–7, 313–15
nonpartisan politics of, 385
Chambliss, Saxby, 310
charitable choice concept, 381
chastity. See sexual purity movement
Chavez, Hugo, 413n
Chile, 248, 422–23n
China, 28, 267–68
Christ. See Jesus Christ
Christian (term), 2, 13–14, 19, 29–30, 51, 83, 310
Christian Democratic Union (CDU), 178–80
Christian educational movement, 336–69
author’s prayer meeting experience and, 339, 356–69
church/state separation issue and, 336–39, 356–60
home schooling, unschooling, providential history and, 339–45, 428n
Stonewall Jackson and, 351–56
Jewish history and, 360–64
religious influences in American history, 364–69
Rousas John Rushdoony’s Christian Reconstructionism and, 347–51
Vision Forum educational materials and, 345–47
Christian Embassy, 156–57, 353–54, 430–31n
Christianity, 5, 16, 50, 134, 179. See also American fundamentalism; Catholicism; Protestantism; religion
Christian Legal Society, 275
Christian Reconstructionism, 347
Christian Right, 44, 132, 222–23, 295, 337, 347, 383, 431n
church (term), 4, 213, 255, 374
churches, 15, 73, 83. See also church/state separation issue; New Life
Church church/state separation issue
Christian educational movement and, 336–39, 356–60
Dwight Eisenhower and, 199–200
Hillary Clinton and, 275
faith-based initiatives and, 379–86
Family/Fellowship secrecy and, 245
providential history and, 356–57
Earl Warren on, 199
Clay, Lucius D., 158
Cleaver, Eldridge, 240
Clinton, Bill, 276–77, 392–93
Clinton, Hillary, 260, 272–77
Coats, Dan, 242, 381, 418n
Coburn, Tom, 18, 264–65, 404n
Coe, David, 35–38, 243
Coe, Doug
African Americans and, 237–40
authoritarianism and, 30, 216–17, 254–55
James Baker and, 25
Sam Brownback and, 264–65
Hillary Clinton and, 272–73
Charles Colson and, 231–33, 235
on churches, 213
on covenants, 29–30
on domestic politics, 198
education of, 210–11
as Family/Fellowship leader, 8, 21–22, 208–18 (see also Family/Fellowship)
Mark Hatfield and, 211–212
internationalism of, 218–24 (see also foreign politics)
on Jesus plus nothing theology, 30, 42, 58, 121, 252–56, 380 (see also
Jesus plus nothing theology)
David Kuo’s meeting with, 380
National Prayer Breakfast and, 22–26 (see also National Prayer Breakfast)
power of, 21–26, 214, 259–60
prayer bet of, 244
on social order, 371
Somalia case and, 281–82
spiritual warfare and, 213–14
as stealth persuader, 92
submergence strategy of, 223–24
Dawson Trotman and, 210–11
visit to Ivanwald by, 51–55
Coe, Jan, 213
Coe, Jonathan, 281–82
Cold War anticommunism. See also communism
The Blob film and, 181–83
containment policy and, 162
missionaries and, 413n
Robert Taft and, 192–94
Abram Vereide, German fascism, and, 150–52 (see also German fascism)
Abram Vereide’s vision of international spiritual war as, 152–55 (see also foreign politics)
Colson, Charles W.
Born Again memoir of, 7, 228, 424–25n
Sam Brownback and, 269–70
career and conversion of, 227–33
Christian worldview and, 342–43, 384, 429n
Hillary Clinton and, 274–75
on Family/Fellowship numbers, 20
influence of, 240, 259, 379
Prison Fellowship of, 22, 233–36
communism. See also Cold War anticommunism
Harry Bridges and, 102
Frank Buchman and, 129
cells and, 19–20, 45, 306–7
Suharto slaughter of Indonesian communists, 221, 245–52
Abram Vereide and, 99, 139, 157
Community Bible Study, 22
compassionate conservatism, 233, 236–40, 258
Compassion International, 295
Congress, U. S. See also politics anti-union legislation and, 141–43 Sam Brownback in (see Brownback, Sam)
Frank Carlson and, 186–95 (see also Carlson, Frank)
Family/Fellowship members in, 6, 15–16, 18–19, 138–40, 142, 148, 168–70, 185, 198–99, 247, 264, 276, 395, 396, 399–400n, 416n
Hillary Clinton in, 260, 272–77
postwar Nazi reconciliation and, 168–74, 177–78
Prayer Breakfast meetings with members of, 138–41 (see also National Prayer Breakfast; Prayer Breakfast meetings)
Conlan, John, 353
Connally, Jeff, 17–18, 30, 33–35, 38–42, 282–83
conservatism. See also Republicans
compassionate, 233, 236–40, 258
liberalism vs., 182 (see also liberalism)
neoconservatism, 183, 267
Abram Vereide’s elite fundamentalism and, 112–13
Constitution, U. S., 339, 348
containment policy, 162, 182. See also Cold War anticommunism
Cook, Roy, 33, 210
Coonley, Howard, 138–39, 189–90
Cooper, Dan, 354
Cooper, Merian, 203–4
core groups. See cells (core groups)
Corey, Lewis, 287
Costa Rica, 220–21
covenants, 29–30, 44, 54–55, 255
Crocker, Chester A., 54
Cromartie, Michael, 23
Crosby, Kenneth M., 184–85
C Street House, 29–30, 259, 276–77
Cuba, 184–85, 413n culture war, 227–28, 236, 287–90. See also Christian educational movement; New Life Church; Popular Front; sexual purity movement
Curtis, Carl, 18
Dague, Paul B., 142
Daubenmire, Dave, 356–57
Declaration of Independence, U. S., 339, 343
Deism, 366
DeLay, Tom, 265, 430, 431
DeMint, Jim, 18
democracy
Konrad Adenauer and, 179
Frank Buchman and, 128–29
deliverance and, 387
history of American secular, 337–39
Ivanwald brothers and, 40
Arthur Langlie and, 122
theocracy vs., 6–7, 277–78, 366–69 (see also theocracy)
Democrats. See also liberalism
Family/Fellowship and, 18–19, 190
Arthur Langlie and, 122
Denning, Michael, 287
deregulation, 142
desire, 50–51, 373–74, 386
de Tocqueville, Alexis, 341
Dewey, John, 376
dictators, Doug Coe and, 222
Diem, Ngo Dinh, 199
DiIulio, John, 380–81
disobedience. See obedience
Dobson, James, 259, 295
Domenici, Pete, 18
domestic politics, 181–204, 257–84
The Blob film and, 181–83
Bill Bright, Campus Crusade, and, 225–27
Sam Brownback and, 260–72
Frank Carlson and Dwight Eisenhower’s presidential election, 183–95