There are continued debates about “What is evangelicalism?” and “Is it worth saving?” Well, it depends what you mean by “evangelicalism” doesn’t it? Sadly, the whole debate I read is incredibly US-centric where “evangelical,” especially “white evangelicals” are merely one demographic that comprise the GOP base.
Not likely to happen! Evangelicalism of 2022 has become the 1979 political fundamentalism of Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority. This transition of evangelical, Protestant, American Christianity was inevitable once evangelicals sought political power. Borrowing from Professor Bird, evangelicalism fully represents a vaguely Protestant Christianity, quasi-fundamentalist, white, anti-immigration, conspiracy-theory-prone, USA-centric, Fox-news consumers who compose a single demographic of the GOP base. Evangelicals, by worshiping former President Donald Trump, are another of the worldly systems described in Revelation 12:3 as "The great red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven diadems."
I’m in grad school currently researching changes in the in moral structure of the American evangelical movement, and I believe there is an certainly can be, but it’s going to be a much smaller and weirder minority as the majority begins to mirror the mainline churches of the early twentieth century.
I found some years ago that the word has become too politically partisan for me to use it, though I still believe in the evangel.
Not likely to happen! Evangelicalism of 2022 has become the 1979 political fundamentalism of Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority. This transition of evangelical, Protestant, American Christianity was inevitable once evangelicals sought political power. Borrowing from Professor Bird, evangelicalism fully represents a vaguely Protestant Christianity, quasi-fundamentalist, white, anti-immigration, conspiracy-theory-prone, USA-centric, Fox-news consumers who compose a single demographic of the GOP base. Evangelicals, by worshiping former President Donald Trump, are another of the worldly systems described in Revelation 12:3 as "The great red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven diadems."
I’m in grad school currently researching changes in the in moral structure of the American evangelical movement, and I believe there is an certainly can be, but it’s going to be a much smaller and weirder minority as the majority begins to mirror the mainline churches of the early twentieth century.
The "untethering" will be the big challenge and what will happen if it can't be achieved?
'Brandishing *guys* on family Christmas cards'? Hopefully that's a typo, otherwise I've completely misunderstood US Evangelicalism!
Lol. Word.