21 December, 2017

Can Evangelicalism Survive Donald Trump and Roy Moore? | The New Yorker

Can Evangelicalism Survive Donald Trump and Roy Moore? | The New Yorker: "The desire by mid-twentieth-century leaders to foster more widespread coöperation between evangelicals and downplay denominational differences cut believers off from the past, some religion scholars have found. The result was an emphasis on personal experience rather than life in a church with historical memory. This has made present-day evangelicals more vulnerable to political movements that appeal to their self-interest, even in contradiction to Biblical teachings, for example, about welcoming the immigrant and lifting up the poor."



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