This dissertation analyzes the development, activities, and struggles of the contemporary progressive evangelical movement. Since the 1970s progressive evangelicals have remained vigorous yet marginalized advocates for social justice, far less conspicuous and influential than the Christian Right’s conservative agenda. Both the progressive minority and conservative majority of evangelicals have promoted programs for political and civic engagement based upon moral visions for American society. The groups have differed widely, however, regarding not only the nature and priority of moral issues but also the means for addressing them. For progressive evangelicals, perceived injustice and inequality have provided the moral impetus to alter existing social structures and create more egalitarian social conditions. In promoting a theology of community, economic justice, the politics of social justice, and a critique of American nationalism, the progressive evangelical movement has challenged central themes embraced by a majority within both evangelicalism and American culture as a whole—individualism, capitalism, moralism, and patriotism. Consequently, progressive evangelicals have labored to persuade skeptical audiences who have doubted that these progressive evangelicals share their core values. The story of contemporary progressive evangelicalism illuminates contests regarding evangelical identity, political boundaries, and the continued salience of religious language and symbols in the public sphere.