Die Opkoms en Ondergang van die Evangeliese Elites

Stephen Wolfe bied ‘n goeie oorsig en perspektief oor die ontstaan, konteks, politiese benadering en versplintering van die populistiese elemente in ‘n tans kwynende nuwe-calvinistiese beweging. Wolfe skryf as volg: “It is obvious now, looking back at the post-9/11 and pre-Obergefell era, that the leftward drift of this movement was inevitable. The end of Renn’s “neutral world” and the beginning of a negative world hostile to Christianity began soon after the Supreme Court’s Obergefell decision in 2015  and accelerated rapidly with Trump’s 2016 victory. Changed circumstances undermined the attractive witness model as previously practiced. The neutral-world ethos could not hold in the negative world; the era of open debate was gone….By 2021, the social justice movement in the church had fizzled out, partly from the bruising that so many received from it but also from the embarrassment of it all. As expected, many of those who were platformed were indeed influenced by critical race theory and liberation theology. Some began affirming female ministers…” Lees volle artikel hier>