Know-Nothing Nihilism: Pandemic and the Scandal of White Evangelicalism
White evangelical habits of mind and idolatrous allegiances propped up a devastatingly irresponsible political administration; I argue that the COVID-19 pandemic should be viewed as an apocalypse: "a catastrophic revelation"—in this case, of Christian responsibility refused. I engage the w...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Philosophy Documentation Center
2022
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Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics
Year: 2022, Volume: 42, Issue: 1, Pages: 57-74 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CH Christianity and Society KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KBQ North America KDG Free church NCD Political ethics |
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| Summary: | White evangelical habits of mind and idolatrous allegiances propped up a devastatingly irresponsible political administration; I argue that the COVID-19 pandemic should be viewed as an apocalypse: "a catastrophic revelation"—in this case, of Christian responsibility refused. I engage the works of Christian historians Mark Noll and Kristin Kobes Du Mez to interrogate how evangelical habits of mind and heart have nurtured anti-intellectualism, credulousness, and the uncritical adoption of neoliberal economic individualism before turning to a constructive Christian realist call for "nasty" (honest, embodied) thinking and genuine repentance which draws from Andrew DeCort’s Bonhoeffer scholarship. |
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| ISSN: | 2326-2176 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Society of Christian Ethics, Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics
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