4. It's too tempting in retrospect to dismiss Neuhaus's radical period as typical neo-con youthful indiscretion for largely rightwing life.
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5. Neuhaus tended to overstate his tightness with M.L. King, Jr. but no question Neuhaus was pastor at black church, went to Selma, etc.
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6. In terms of anti-Vietnam war activism, Neuhaus even more central. A crucial figure in Committee of Clergy Concerned about Vietnam.
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7. In 60s, Neuhaus was where action was: in jail with Norman Mailer, on stage with Chomsky, singing with Joan Baez.
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8. One through line in Neuhaus's life is ecumenicism, although political valiance of that changed as he moved to the right.
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9. As modern Lutheran in 1950s/1960s, Neuhaus eager to work with Catholics and Jews, which came to fruition in political activism.
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10. 1990s conservative Neuhaus worked to get Catholics and evangelicals to put differences aside for political unity: right wing ecumenicism
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11. Neuhaus's ecumenicism always of 1950s Protestants-Catholics-Jews variety, with little room for a wider religious pluralism
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12. Neuhaus's narrow ecumenicism in contrast to his friend Peter Berger, Lutheran genuinely interested in Hindu & Buddhist spirituality.
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13. The other through line in Neuhaus's life is high-church liturgical traditionalism, which was one bridge from Lutheranism to Catholicism
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14. So, from own vantage point, Neuhaus could claim certain consistency: politically committed Christianity carried him from left to right
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15. More broadly, Neuhaus's career does show how fusion of religion & politics in USA a more complicated affair than just "religious right"
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16. Another bridge in Neuhaus's journey was Jimmy Carter, whose presidency opened RJN's involvement with think tanks & public policy.
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