Sunday, whom Du Mez credits for championing a “muscular” style ofĬhristianity, became their most popular spokesman. Immigration, and confronting novel ideas about the evolution of humans from monkeys.Īt that time a handful of white men crafted a new version of Christianity. Through turbulent economic contractions, wrestling with the impact of massive Americans were recoveringįrom the horrors of the Civil War and the conflicts over Reconstruction, struggling Nineteenth century at a moment of tremendous turmoil. The modern evangelical movement was born in the late What is more, the evidence has always been there The Trump era has confirmed that we cannot separateĮvangelicalism from the racism, sexism, and xenophobia that gave rise to the įor these authors, evangelicalism is about more than Perry study in Taking America Back for God. Trump connected with impulses that are central to the evangelical movement,įrom an insistence on patriarchy that Kristin Kobes Du Mez traces in Jesus and John Wayne, to the racism that Sarah Posner examines in Unholy, to the Christian nationalism Of forgiveness, love, understanding, or compassion. He demonstrated that fear, anger,Īnd anxiety remained as central to the lives of evangelicals as any practices
Masterfully stoked evangelicals’ terror of state power and brought theirĭeep-seated racism and sexism to the surface. Regularly appeared in their ranks, they argued, did not reflect the true In the Lincoln bedroom, and Jerry Falwell might be advising GOP platformĬommittees, but the evangelical gospel was timeless, unaffected by the forces Impact on the untainted core of evangelicalism. Influence politics and culture, but politics and culture, they implied, had no With this move, they separatedĮvangelicalism from its existence in the world. Movement and the scholars who follow them insisted for several decades, is toĬommit to the authority of the Bible, the centrality of Jesus, the necessity of Have projected a whitewashed vision of their movement to the rest of theĬountry so successfully for so long. If this seemed jarring, it may be because evangelical leaders Religious voters give their support to a man with a long track record of lying,Ĭheating, using profanity, and grabbing women “by the pussy”? Trump’s success surprised a lot of us: How could a group of staunchly moral Yet in 2016 he earned 81 percent of the white evangelical Donald Trump has never pretended to practice traditionalĬhristian virtues.
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