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Do not fill this in! ==Terminology== The Christian right is also known as the ''New Christian Right'' (NCR) or the ''Religious Right'',<ref name="e-Rea 2012"/> although some consider the religious right to be "a slightly broader category than Christian Right".<ref name=hartsem>{{cite web|url=http://hirr.hartsem.edu/ency/Cright.htm|title=Content Pages of the Encyclopedia of Religion and Social Science|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303230556/http://hirr.hartsem.edu/ency/Cright.htm|archive-date=March 3, 2016}}</ref><ref name=wacker>{{cite web|url=http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/twenty/tkeyinfo/chr_rght.htm|title=The Christian Right, The Twentieth Century, Divining America: Religion in American History|author=Grant Wacker|publisher=National Humanities Center}}</ref> [[John C. Green]] of the [[Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life]] states that [[Jerry Falwell]] used the label ''religious right'' to describe himself. Gary Schneeberger, vice president of media and public relations for [[Focus on the Family]], states that "[t]erms like 'religious right' have been traditionally used in a pejorative way to suggest extremism. The phrase 'socially conservative evangelicals' is not very exciting, but that's certainly the way to do it."<ref name=ct>Sarah Pulliam: [http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2009/februaryweb-only/106-42.0.html Phrase 'Religious Right' Misused, Conservatives Say] ''Christianity Today'' (Web-only), February 12, 2009.</ref> Evangelical leaders like [[Tony Perkins (politician)|Tony Perkins]] of the [[Family Research Council]] have called attention to the problem of equating the term ''Christian right'' with [[Evangelicalism|Evangelical Protestants]]. Although evangelicals constitute the core constituency of the Christian right, not all evangelicals fit the description, and a number of [[Catholic Church|Roman Catholics]] are also members of the Christian right's core base.<ref name="Deckman2004"/> The problem of description is further complicated by the fact that the label ''religious conservative'' or ''[[Conservative Christianity|conservative Christian]]'' may apply to other religious groups as well. For instance, [[Anabaptism|Anabaptist Christians]] (most notably [[Amish]], [[Mennonites]], [[Hutterites]], the [[Bruderhof Communities]], [[Schwarzenau Brethren]], [[River Brethren]] and [[Apostolic Christian Church|Apostolic Christians]]) are theologically, socially, and culturally conservative; however, there are no overtly political organizations associated with these [[Christian denominations]], which are usually uninvolved, uninterested, apathetic, or indifferent towards politics.<ref>{{cite book |author-last=Joireman |author-first=Sandra F. |year=2009 |chapter=Anabaptism and the State: An Uneasy Coexistence |chapter-url=https://scholarship.richmond.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1090&context=polisci-faculty-publications |url-status=live |editor-last=Joireman |editor-first=Sandra F. |title=Church, State, and Citizen: Christian Approaches to Political Engagement |location=[[Oxford]] and [[New York City|New York]] |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |pages=73β91 |isbn=978-0-19-537845-0 |lccn=2008038533 |s2cid=153268965 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201125145905/https://scholarship.richmond.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1090&context=polisci-faculty-publications |archive-date=November 25, 2020 |access-date=February 26, 2022}}</ref> Evangelical theologian and pastor [[Tim Keller (pastor)|Tim Keller]] stated that conservative Christianity (theology) predates the Christian right (politics). Keller asserted that being a theological conservative does not require a person to be a political conservative, and that some [[Progressivism|political progressive]] views around economics, helping the poor, the [[redistribution of wealth]], and racial diversity are compatible with theologically conservative Christianity.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Dr. Timothy Keller at the March 2013 Faith Angle Forum |url=https://eppc.org/publication/dr-timothy-keller-at-the-march-2013-faith-angle-forum/ |access-date=January 19, 2023 |website=Ethics & Public Policy Center |language=en-US}}</ref> Conservative writer [[Rod Dreher]] has stated that a Christian can be theologically conservative while still holding [[Economic progressivism|left-wing economic views]] or even [[Socialism|socialist views]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Dreher |first=Rod |date=July 24, 2014 |title=What Is 'Traditional Christianity,' Anyway? |url=https://www.theamericanconservative.com/what-is-traditional-christianity-anyway/ |access-date=January 19, 2023 |website=The American Conservative |language=en-US}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. 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