Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-155).
Contents:
Introduction: doing theology in the age of Trump / Jeffrey W. Robbins, Clayton Crockett -- Is God a white nationalist? / Robin Meyers -- War of aggression: the Moody formation of white Christian nationalism / Alan Richard -- This is how we talk here, and if you don't like it, leave: theological epistemology, information technology, and Christian nationalism / Sarah Morice Brubaker -- Donald Trump and the privilege of outrage / James Howard Hill Jr. -- The white Christian nationalist hustle / Jeffrey W. Robbins -- Ungrounded innocence: confronting Christian culpability in white nationalism / Karen Bray -- Christian kingship: the empire's new clothes / Clayton Crockett -- Theological resistance to U.S. Christian nationalism / Mark Lewis Taylor -- The time of America / John D. Caputo -- Trump: the apotheosis of American exceptionalism / Michael S. Hogue / Foxangelicals, political theology, and friends / Catherine Keller -- White evangelicals, American ethnonationalism, and prospects for change / Daniel Miller -- Trumpism is a state of affairs / Jordan E. Miller, Hollis Phelps -- Donald Trump, Republican beloved / Joe Bessler -- Taking advantage: Trumpism, postmodernism, and Christianity / David Galston -- Eternal scar of the fictive mind / Noëlle Vahanian.
Summary:
This book is a work of theological resistance. It is not so much about the presidency of Donald Trump as it is about what his popularity and rise to power reveal about the state of Christianity and the moral character of the evangelical Right in the United States today. More specifically, it is about the threat of white Christian nationalism, which is the particular form that the nationalist populist movement of Trumpism has adopted for itself. The contributors are all fellows from the Westar Institute's academic seminar on God and the Human Future, and include many of the leading figures in theology and Continental philosophy of religion. This volume provides a form of theopolitical resistance based on intersectionality. The authors recognize how the various forms of oppression interrelate to contribute to a vast, dynamic, and seeming impenetrable network of systemic injustice and marginalization. These essays demonstrate that politics need not be played as a zero-sum game with a winner-take-all mentality, and that a critical theology is as urgently needed and as relevant now as ever.
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