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The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory

American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

Tim Alberta 2023 Beaverton Lib 270.82 ALB

• p001 Prologue: interviews for "...the book ...", probably American Carnage (2019)

• p005 1977 New York financier atheist father Richard J. Alberta becomes christian minister in Michigan, dies 2019 age 71 in 2019

• p007 At funeral, parishioners react angrily to son Tim's prior book dissing Limbaugh and Trump

• p011 [https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/religious-right-real-origins-107133/[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_W._Bebbington | Bebbington quadrilateral ]]

• p013 The crisis of American evangelicalism comes down to an obsession with that worldly identity.

• p018 new pastor Chris Wynans was not a conservative Republican.

• p023 conservatives focus on Old Testament language, not New
• p024 Evangelicals embrace Trump

• p025 Trump "golden" escalator

• p025 Johnson Amendment prohibits nonprofits from endorsing or opposing political candidates, Trump halted enforcement

• p28 "The problem is, blessings often become indistinguishable from entitlements."

• p35 John Torres at Goodwill Evangelical Presbyterian Church (Port Jervis?) New York

• p38 parishioners hated Obama, then hated those hated by Trump
• p40 parishioners furious at COVID restrictions, deranged by conspiracy nonsense

• p41 Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi Beaverton 305.8 KEN

• p41 Critical Race Theory accusations, some from friends

• p43 4 month sabbatical, returned to smaller but supportive congregation. 5% crazy

• p46 By setting their minds on the things of man, Christians are telling Jesus to get behind them.

• p48 "... you've baptized your worldview and called it Christian."
• p49 "The enemies aren't those outside of the Church; it's people in your church who don't think exactly the way you do."

• p52 Doug Olson Lynchburg Baptist College

• p54 Jerry Falwell "fascinated by the market dynamics"

• p55 Falwell Sunday sermons on WLVA TV in 1956

• p56 1958 preaches against integration, aligned with Joe McCarthy who died in 1957?

• p58 evangelicals

• p59 Scopes trial

• p64 Howard Phillips Paul Weyrich 1973 founded Heritage Foundation

• p65 Moral Majority

• p66 Before 1973 Roe v. Wade, abortion was a "Catholic issue".

• p66 1973 W. A. Criswell "I have always felt that it was only after a child was born and had a life separate from its mother that it became an individual person, and it has always, therefore, seemed to me that what is best for the mother and for the future should be allowed."

  • Later attacked abortion; Anti-Carter strategy? Protecting segregated schools?

• p201 Blinded by Might Cal Thomas and Ed Ed Dobson, 1998, Zonderman (own)