Theology
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How Theology, Nation, and Identity Became Entwined in the American Imagination
I discussed Dispensationalism and its theology in the previous posts. But here is an important part of the story. There is also a reason why this framework has found particularly fertile ground in the American context. This instinct has deeper roots than we might first assume. From its earliest days, many of the first English… Continue reading
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Israeli or Jewish lobbying has nothing to do with it
Appealing to it as the primary explanation is an intellectually shallow reflex—one that reveals more about the speaker than it does about the situation itself. The real driver is something far less discussed and far more consequential: a modern strain of evangelical theology—simplistic, unbiblical, unhistorical, and utterly earthly—profoundly misapplied. What we are witnessing is not… Continue reading
