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DBH on Christianity in America:
No nation in the wake of Christendom’s decline has done more to confuse the story that Christians should tell with the kind of stories sinful human beings long to tell. 1/6
DBH on Christianity in America:
No nation in the wake of Christendom’s decline has done more to confuse the story that Christians should tell with the kind of stories sinful human beings long to tell. 1/6
In the American imagination our national history is one of a chosen people fleeing the wickedness that is in the world so as to become a holy nation set apart, called to recreate humankind in a new and Edenic condition. 2/6
And somehow, then, with a buffoonish crudity almost unprecedented in terrestrial history—or, perhaps, an unfeigned naïveté positively touching in its earnestness, depending on how one looks at it—a good number of American Christians find it possible to believe that... 3/6
...the proclamation of the gospel is of a piece with the defense of free-market economics, libertarian democracy, gun rights, draconian penal laws, border walls, and the “War on Terror.” 4/6
Christian peoples of the past have often enough allied their confessional allegiances to the ambitions of the state. But where else, I wonder, have Christians so effortlessly and cretinously and yet so very relentlessly allied themselves to explicit ideologies that,... 5/6
...taken in sum, constitute nothing other than the systematic negation of the gospel? Where else but here could the history of God in Christ have been told so falsely? And will Christianity ever really reach these shores? 6/6
–David Bentley Hart, Theological Territories, p. 243
–David Bentley Hart, Theological Territories, p. 243
