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The Family

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by Jeff Sharlet


  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

  Hillary Clinton and, 272–77

  Charles Colson, cultural politics, and, 227–36

  electoral politics of George W. Bush and, 383, 385

  elite fundamentalism and, 277–79

  faith-based initiatives and, 274–75, 379–86

  Family/Fellowship influence in, 198–204, 257–60

  first Presidential Prayer Breakfast, 195–98 (see also National Prayer Breakfast)

  Jesus plus nothing theology and, 29–30, 283–84

  nonpartisan Prayer Breakfast meetings and, 139–40 (see also Prayer Breakfast meetings)

  dominionism, 44

  Dore, John, 118–20

  Dorn, William Jennings Bryan, 220

  doubt, absence of, 48–51

  Douglass, Walter, 109–11

  Douthat, Ross, 347–48, 429n Doyle, Clyde, 168

  Dunbar, Matt, 324–27, 332, 334–35

  Duncan, James, 140–41

  Durenberger, David, 26

  Duvalier, François “Papa Doc,” 215–16

  East Timor, Suharto and, 246–52

  Edwards, Jonathan, 56–72, 401n

  American fundamentalism and, 7–9, 58–61

  culture war and, 289

  experimental religion of, 68–71

  Charles Grandison Finney vs., 77, 79–81

  Abigail Hutchinson’s conversion to true religion of, 61–68

  Jesus Christ of, 5

  Jesus plus nothing theology and, 56–58

  Abram Vereide vs., 87, 113

  Eisenhower, Dwight, 185, 187–89, 192–98, 413–14n, 416n

  Eldredge, John, 330

  electoral politics, 119, 145, 192–95, 383, 385. See also domestic

  politics

  elite fundamentalism. See also American fundamentalism

  American fascism and, 121–24 (see also American fascism)

  of Frank Buchman, 124–30, 405–6n

  of Charles Colson, 235–36

  of Family/Fellowship, 43–44, 57–58 (see also Family/Fellowship)

  international capitalism and, 306 (see also biblical capitalism)

  internationalist ambitions of, 152–53

  (see also Cold War anticommunism; foreign politics; German fascism)

  Jesus Christ of, 5

  merging of populist fundamentalism and, 262, 372–73, 377, 381, 385–86

  National Prayer Breakfast and, 195–98 (see also National Prayer Breakfast)

  Popular Front culture war and, 287–90 (see also Christian educational movement; New Life Church; sexual purity movement)

  populist fundamentalism vs., 7–8, 277 (see also populist fundamentalism) suffering, salvation, deliverance, and, 370–87

  of Abram Vereide (see Vereide, Abraham [Abram])

  El Salvador, 25, 367, 400

  Ellingwood, Herb, 398n

  Elson, Edward L. R., 184

  empire, 3–4, 57, 69, 183, 191, 228, 233, 288–90, 336, 343, 386

  Engle v. Vitale case, 225

  Enlightenment rationalism, 338, 366–67

  Ensign, John, 18

  Enzi, Mike, 18

  ethics, 44, 113, 130, 156, 230. See also accountability

  Ethiopia, 25, 215, 248, 280–81

  European fascism, 121–23, 129–33. See also German fascism evangelicalism, 43, 73, 173, 386

  evangelism

  American history of, 336–39

  Frank Buchman on, 125

  defined, 7

  Jonathan Edwards and, 62–68, 70–71

  Jonathan Edwards vs. Charles

  Grandison Finney on, 77

  Charles Grandison Finney and, 73–74, 77–83

  stealth, 190

  Abram Vereide and, 97–98

  Everson v. Board of Education case, 357, 361

  Every Home for Christ, 295 Every Man’s Battle (book series), 330–33

  Exodus International, 331

  exurban movement, 309–12

  Faith and Action in the Nation’s Capital, 257

  faith-based initiatives, 233, 236, 274–75, 379–86

  Falwell, Jerry, 7–8, 258, 346–47

  Family/Fellowship

  as avant-garde of American fundamentalism, 2–5, 122 (see also American fundamentalism; elite fundamentalism)

  Doug Coe as leader of (see Coe, Doug)

  documents and history of, 60–61

  fascism and (see American fascism; German fascism)

  financial principles of, 45

  financial support and, 16, 22

  Dick Foth as leader of, 21, 385

  International Christian Leadership (ICL) and, 8, 21, 123–24, 163, 166, 191

  Ivanwald and, 1–2, 18–27 (see also Ivanwald)

  Jesus plus nothing theology of (see Jesus plus nothing theology)

  David Kuo and salvation theology of, 379–86

  mission statement of, 19

  National Prayer Breakfast of, 22–26

  (see also National Prayer Breakfast; Prayer Breakfast meetings)

  politics of, 6–7 (see also domestic politics; foreign politics; politics; theocracy)

  Popular Front culture war and, 287–90 (see also Christian educational movement; New Life Church; sexual purity movement)

  power of, 257–60 (see also power) renaming of Fellowship as Family, 239

  Abram Vereide as founder of (see Vereide, Abraham)

  Farrell, James Augustine, 96–97, 130

  fascism, 130, 137. See also American fascism; European fascism; German fascism; theocracy

  Federer, William J., 338–39, 356, 364

  Fellowship. See Family/Fellowship Fellowship Foundation, 22

  feminism, 20, 213–14, 269. See also women

  Ferguson, Homer, 198–99

  Fernández, José Joaquín Trejos, 220

  films, 181–83, 196, 203–4, 320

  Finding the Better Way (Fellowship pamphlet), 138–40, 142

  Finney, Charles Grandison, 73–83

  anxious bench innovation of, 80–83

  conversion of, 74–77

  Jonathan Edwards vs., 77, 79–81

  evangelism of, 7–8, 73–74

  Jesus Christ of, 5, 87

  Abram Vereide vs., 113

  Fisk, Kyle, 299

  Fitzsimmons, Frank “Fitz,” 231

  Flanders, Ralph E., 190, 200–201

  Focus on the Family, 259, 273, 295

  Folger, James A., 105

  follower of Christ (terminology), 2, 372

  Ford, Gerald, 19, 230, 246–47, 250

  Ford, Henry, 122–23, 126, 130

  Ford, John, 203–4

  foreign affairs, 205–40. See also Worldwide Spiritual Offensive

  abstinence programs and, 328–29

  Doug Coe’s succession to Family/Fellowship leadership and, 210–18

  compassionate conservatism and, 236–40

  faith-based initiatives and, 236, 384

  Richard Halverson and, 208–10

  international subversion strategy and, 218–24

  Charles Malik, United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and, 224–25

  Clifton Robinson and, 205–8

  Somalia case and, 279–84

  submersion strategy and, 223–24

  Ab
ram Vereide’s vision of international spiritual war and, 143, 152–55 (see also Cold War anticommunism; German fascism)

  Fosdick, Harry Emerson, 134–36

  Foth, Dick, 21, 385

  Foundation for Religious Action in the Social and Civil Order, 184

  Founders, United States, 366

  Franco, Francisco, 227, 262, 396n, 407n

  Franklin, Benjamin, 59–60, 353, 366

  freedom of religion, 368–69

  free enterprise, 155, 187, 217, 343. See also capitalism

  Freeman, C. S., 224

  Fricke, Otto, 159, 163–65, 169, 171

  Frontier Christian Fellowship, 316–17

  fundamentalism, American. See American fundamentalism futurism, 183–84

  Garfield, James, 362

  Gärtner, Margarete, 176–77, 411n

  Gedat, Gustav Adolf, 163–65, 175, 177, 218 425n

  German fascism, 144–80. See also European fascism; Hitler, Adolf

  Konrad Adenauer’s Christian Democratic Union and, 177–80

  American fascism and, 122–24, 129, 132, 143 (see also American fascism)

  Castle Mainau conference on Nazi moral rehabilitation, 174–77

  Doug Coe and, 215–16, 254–55

  Cold War anticommunism and, 149–52, 168–74

  Nazi espionage in U. S., 144–49

  theodicy, postwar Nazi suffering, and Cold War containment policy, 160–62

  Abram Vereide’s Christian Embassy and postwar Nazi reconciliation, 156–59, 163–68

  Abram Vereide’s vision of international spiritual war and, 152–55

  Glen Eyrie Castle retreat, 211, 252–56

  Global Ethnic Missions (Youth Ablaze), 295

  Global Harvest, 301

  globalization, 306–7, 384

  God-controlled government. See theocracy

  God’s will, 107, 123, 141–42, 378. See also Jesus Christ

  Goebbels, Joseph, 129, 254

  Goldhagen, Daniel Jonah, 165

  Gore, Al, 259–60

  Graham, Billy, 24, 74, 184, 186, 195–98, 219, 229, 257, 276–77, 362, 380, 415n

  Grassley, Chuck, 18, 54, 281

  Great Awakenings. See Edwards, Jonathan; Finney, Charles

  Grandison

  Greece, 154–55, 190

  Green, Marshall, 246

  Groseclose, Elgin, 249

  Grubb, Norman, 98–99, 101, 123, 190, 399n, 403n

  Guatemala, 199, 201

  guidance and Frank Buchman, 127–30, 138

  Gunther, John, 99

  Haggard, Ted, 293–97, 300, 304–7, 314–15, 323, 426n, 431n. See also New Life Church

  Haines, Wallace E., 160, 175–77, 217–18

  Haiti, 215–16, 421n

  Hall, Tony, 276, 396n, 424n

  Halverson, Richard, 208–10, 216, 230, 238, 278–79, 418n

  Hamilton, Alexander, 340

  Hanes, Robert M., 148

  Hardesty, Howard, 249

  Hardt, Michael, 387

  Hargis, Billy James, 322

  Harmel, Pierre, 224

  Hart, Merwin K., 124, 189–90, 412n, 420n

  Hata, Tsutomu, 46

  hate-crime legislation, 265–66. See also homosexuality

  Hatfield, Mark, 25, 183, 211–12, 247

  Hawley, Joseph, 70–71

  Hayek, Friedrich von, 190–91

  Hayford, Jack, 300–301

  Hays, Brooks, 140, 185

  heart as a theological concept, 6, 7, 39, 40, 42, 58–59, 77

  Henry, Carl F. H., 153–55

  Hildring, John H., 158

  Hilton, Conrad, 195–98

  Himmler, Heinrich, 129, 254

  Hirs, Alfred, 169–70

  history, providential, 2–3, 339–56, 364–69. See also Christian educational movement

  Hitler, Adolf. See also German fascism

  Hermann J. Abs and, 166–67

  American fascism and, 98

  America First and, 148

  Bruce Barton on, 136

  Frank Buchman on, 129–30

  Doug Coe on, 30, 54, 212, 217, 244, 254–55, 380

  Family/Fellowship on, 3, 45, 217

  Henry Ford and, 122–23

  Gedat, Gustav Adolf on, 164

  German Christians and, 164, 172

  Hans Speidel and, 166

  Abram Vereide on, 143, 157

  Manfred Zapp and, 146–47, 149

  Ho Chi Minh, 30, 254

  Hoffman, Paul G., 192

  Hofstadter, Richard, 74

  Hohenlohe, Gottfried, 175, 177

  holy laughter, 364

  homeschooling, 340–46, 349. See also Christian educational movement

  homosexuality

  Sam Brownback and, 265–66, 268–69

  Frank Buchman and, 126, 405n culture war and, 57, 132, 259, 277, 294, 311

  Ted Haggard and, 293–94, 296, 322–23, 426n

  Homosexual Revolution, The (book), 322–23

  Ivanwald and, 2, 40,

  Operation Rescue (Operation Save America) and, 359, 363

  Rushdoony, Rousas John and, 347

  same–sex marriage, 375

  sexual purity movement and, 324, 331

  spiritual warfare and, 309

  Workplace Religious Freedom Act and, 275

  Honduras, 25

  Hoover, J. Edgar, 183–84

  Houses of Worship Act, 265

  Hughes, Harold, 232, 240, 278–79

  Hull, Cordell, 145

  human rights, 224–25, 266–67

  Hunter, Bob, 53–54

  Hutchinson, Abigail, 62–68

  Idea, Abram Vereide’s, 89–92. See also key man theory; Vereide, Abraham (Abram)

  Imago Dei Community, 374–79

  Indonesia, 24, 221, 245–52, 320, 422n

  Industrial Workers of the World, 101–8 “In God We Trust,” 199

  Inhofe, James, 6, 18, 259–60, 430n

  International Bible Society, 319–21

  International Christian Leadership (ICL), 8, 21, 123–24, 163, 166, 172–73, 189–91, 199, 207–8. See also Family/Fellowship

  International Council for Christian Leadership, 163, 191

  International Foundation, 22

  internationalism. See Cold War anticommunism; foreign politics; Worldwide Spiritual Offensive

  International Religious Freedom Act, 275

  Iraq, 26, 303

  Islam, 13, 29–30, 132, 233–34, 259, 266–67, 307, 320

  Israel, 224, 245, 262, 270, 303

  It Can’t Happen Here (book), 130–31

  Ivanwald, 13–55

  author’s encounter with brother of, 13–16

  author’s encounter with house leader at, 38–40

  author’s entry into, 1–2, 16–18

  author’s initiation at house meeting at, 32–35

  brotherhood at, 40–42

  Cedars retreat, Potomac Point, C Street House and, 27–30

  cell and Youth Corps instructions at, 44–47

  daily regimen at, 30–32

  faith and practice at, 47–51

  relationship of Family/Fellowship to, 18–27

  responses to author’s article about, 241–45, 385, 394n

 

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