Christianity Today, produced his watershed volume
The Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism. This work represented Henry’s clarion call for evangelicals to engage with the social ills facing the world, to apply the fundamental doctrines of the Christian faith to address the needs of society without being trapped into preaching a mere “social gospel.” Fundamentalists of the prior generation, he argued, showed a troubling “reluctance to come to grips with social evils” as they isolated themselves from the surrounding world.
Listed with “aggressive warfare,” “the liquor traffic,” “exploitation of labor or management,” and other social sins that Henry identified as too removed from fundamentalist rhetoric and conscience was, notably, “racial hatred and intolerance.” And this was, by and large, an accurate assessment, at least among those whom Henry here envisioned as “fundamentalists” a category essentially white in its composition.
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How Religion Influenced Modern Economics
April 23, 2021
“One of the fundamental elements of the spirit of modern capitalism,” German sociologist Max Weber wrote in his landmark 1905 book,
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, “of rational conduct on the basis of the idea of the calling, was born from the spirit of Christian asceticism.”
Weber attributed the free-market success so prevalent amongst Protestant societies to its origins in Calvinist predestinarian theology: believers could never know for sure whether they had been saved, but material success portended well for their prospects of eternal salvation, so they might as well earn and save money.
Bill Fletcher Jr Follows the Marxist Tradition of Antisemitism
Bill Fletcher Jr Follows the Marxist Tradition of Antisemitism
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As a Marxist, Bill Fletcher Jr’s daily task is to “heighten the contradictions.” By consistently pointing out the hypocrisy of capitalism, religion, borders, and gender, the masses will come to understand a new world is possible. What will that new world look like? Internationalism will replace nation-states (nationalism), state-sponsored atheism will replace religion, passports will become relics of a bourgeois past, and gender will be a political statement.
As a Black Marxist who first learned world affairs from reading the Nation of Islam’s
Andrew L. Whitehead, associate professor of sociology at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis and co-author of
Taking Back America for God: Christian Nationalism in the United States, discusses the proliferation of Christian nationalism and its influence on American politics.
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