{"title":"Know-Nothing Nihilism: Pandemic and the Scandal of White Evangelicalism","authors":"M. A. Harrington","doi":"10.5840/jsce202281662","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"abstract:White evangelical habits of mind and idolatrous allegiances propped up a devastatingly irresponsible political administration; I argue that the COVID-19 pandemic should be viewed as an apocalypse: \"a catastrophic revelation\"—in this case, of Christian responsibility refused. I engage the works of Christian historians Mark Noll and Kristin Kobes Du Mez to interrogate how evangelical habits of mind and heart have nurtured anti-intellectualism, credulousness, and the uncritical adoption of neoliberal economic individualism before turning to a constructive Christian realist call for \"nasty\" (honest, embodied) thinking and genuine repentance which draws from Andrew DeCort's Bonhoeffer scholarship.","PeriodicalId":43321,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY OF CHRISTIAN ETHICS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2022-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY OF CHRISTIAN ETHICS","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.5840/jsce202281662","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"RELIGION","Score":null,"Total":0}
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abstract:White evangelical habits of mind and idolatrous allegiances propped up a devastatingly irresponsible political administration; I argue that the COVID-19 pandemic should be viewed as an apocalypse: "a catastrophic revelation"—in this case, of Christian responsibility refused. I engage the works of Christian historians Mark Noll and Kristin Kobes Du Mez to interrogate how evangelical habits of mind and heart have nurtured anti-intellectualism, credulousness, and the uncritical adoption of neoliberal economic individualism before turning to a constructive Christian realist call for "nasty" (honest, embodied) thinking and genuine repentance which draws from Andrew DeCort's Bonhoeffer scholarship.
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