What’s the common thread and theme that holds Evangelicals together in America? It’s the adoption of a political ontology of power that holds on to the American dream of Empire — whether they are baptist or charismatic or non-denom or confessional Reformed— that’s the linchpin.
The folks that stand out against this tradition are the anomalies, not the borders or keepers of this movement. Only those who have a distinct political ontology can withstand the pressures to fall in line with that. But not many have offered a different metaphysic robust enough.
Many pastors and teachers who have opposed this American imperialism thought that they could opt for a kind of “political neutrality”. In the end, this leaves congregants at the mercy of what news channel they listen to.
Well-meaning & sincere leaders/pastors wake up with their people adopting that violent political ontology and rhetoric overnight. But in reality, it’s because they were never given the metaphysics of the Gospel. This method doesn’t work.
A political ontology of “neutrality” is what the Puritans and southern churches argued for to keep slavery and the empire alive.
Now that WASP establishment has died 2 deaths, we have seen the nostalgia and retrenchment re-emerge with a vengeance.
Now that WASP establishment has died 2 deaths, we have seen the nostalgia and retrenchment re-emerge with a vengeance.
We need a distinct political ontology to awaken the church to its idolatry and complicity in violence and abuse of power in every corner of Evangelicalism.
What if the great divide in the church won’t be between liberal and conservative, evangelical or confessional, mainline or sideline? But what if the divide is between those who reject the worship of power/following the Cruciform Savior and those who try to worship mammon and God?
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