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| Peter Montgomery |
Gagné, a professor of religion at Concordia University, focuses on a few theological concepts to explain the religious and political worldview of some of Trump’s most ardent followers: dominion, spiritual warfare, and the End Times.
That focus makes the book a valuable read for people who are mystified about the intensity of conservative Christian support for Trump, and are willing to dig into the meaning of different beliefs about the End Times and how those beliefs impact people’s views about politics, pluralism, and democracy.
Those differences can be powerful. Rejecting the End Times theology of rapture and tribulation embraced by many evangelicals and popularized in the best-selling “Left Behind” books, leaders associated with the New Apostolic Reformation teach that Christ will return not to rescue a defeated church but to rule with a triumphant one.
Those differences can be powerful. Rejecting the End Times theology of rapture and tribulation embraced by many evangelicals and popularized in the best-selling “Left Behind” books, leaders associated with the New Apostolic Reformation teach that Christ will return not to rescue a defeated church but to rule with a triumphant one.
It’s not hard to see how well this “victorious eschatology” aligns with dominionism, “a political theology of power” which Gagné summarizes as the idea that “Christians are called by God to rule (i.e. exercise authority” over all aspects of society by controlling political and cultural institutions.” Readers of Right Wing Watch will recognize this as Seven Mountains Dominionism promoted by Lance Wallnau and other spiritual warriors Gagné writes about.
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