Evangelical Politics: Theology or Sociology?
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4.8 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2021
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
In a follow up to last week's Deconstructing Faith episode, David French and Curtis Chang dive into the sometimes murky and contradictory political views of Christians. All too frequently, the political stances we think are biblical are actually just cultural.
Why are most Christians' political stances so predictable? For example, why do many believers who care about abortion not care as much about systemic racism? Or vice versa?
Tune into today's episode as Curtis and David tackle the fascinating interaction between politics, culture, and the Bible… and end with a surprising take on abortion and systemic racism.
Show Notes:
-More in Common - The Hidden Tribes of America
-Paul D. Miller - The Role of Social Science in 'Deconstructing' White Evangelicalism
-Kristen du Mez - Jesus and John Wayne
-Jemar Tisby - The Color of Compromise
-George McKenna - On Abortion: A Lincolnian Position (circa 1995, but still relevant)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everyone. This is Curtis, and I am excited to tell you about a new feature of the GoodFaith podcast, and it's called Campfire Stories. |
| 0:11.0 | Now, in a great campfire, everyone has the opportunity to share their stories. And so, in Campfire Stories, we want to hear from you. |
| 0:20.0 | We want to hear a story about what you are doing along the themes of the GoodFaith podcast, perhaps it's something about how you're living out your relationships with political polarization, how you are trying to reflect the image of God in your institution and organization, or what you're doing with your money, or your vocation, anything that has been sparked by the themes that we've covered here in the GoodFaith podcast is fear game. |
| 0:47.0 | It doesn't matter if it's a big story, a small story, or something in between, as long as it's a story about what you are doing in your life. |
| 0:55.0 | We're not so much interested in hearing just thoughts, we want to hear stories of doing. |
| 1:00.0 | So, we'll put a link in the show notes where you can just click on it and then supply us the basic outlines of your story of doing, of living out the themes of GoodFaith podcast. |
| 1:11.0 | And we'll look at it and we may invite you to share that story on a GoodFaith blog, a social media, or perhaps even invite you to come on the GoodFaith show yourself and talk to me and share your story. |
| 1:25.0 | Like, how cool would that be? I'd love to hear from you. I'd love to talk with you. So, please consider joining the Campfire by actually joining actively and sharing your story with others gathered around the Campfire. |
| 1:38.0 | Thanks. |
| 1:41.0 | Welcome to the GoodFaith podcast. This is David French with Curtis Chang. And I promise you not for long and not much longer. Am I going to just right start the podcast by asking you to go. |
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| 2:30.0 | the podcast and put everything back in place. We're going to start this podcast. With everyone. We're going to start the podcast. Our podcast. We're talking about Chef Ru Won, but that's enough of that. What are we going to talk about today? Today, I'm going to almost call this Curtis or thinking about this is in a way deconstruction. This sequel. But or maybe deconstruction. This supplement. But with a particular emphasis on politics and in religion and politics. Hyp� |
| 3:00.0 | important and urgent matters for the church to determine and to decide are what are the political |
| 3:07.1 | propositions and political ideologies and positions that they hold that are the result of Christian |
| 3:13.9 | doctrine and theology versus what are the political positions and identities that they hold as a |
| 3:20.6 | result of sort of history and sociology. And this is a really important point and an increasingly |
| 3:27.0 | important point because as everybody essentially understands and knows, especially the wide |
| 3:34.8 | evangelical community is heavily concentrated on one side of the political spectrum. And why |
| 3:42.0 | why emphasize wide evangelicals because that's who's concentrated on one side of the political |
| 3:47.2 | spectrum. If you spread out the definition of evangelicalism as we've talked about before, |
| 3:52.6 | beyond a into a multi-ethnic theological category, then evangelicalism isn't so clustered |
| 4:02.4 | on one side of the political spectrum. And it becomes really important to know are people |
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