川普上台后,拉尔夫·德罗林格(Ralph Drollinger)负责白宫每周一次的查经小组,由副总统迈克·彭斯和其他阁员出席。他们非常喜欢“王”这个词,以至于德罗林格经常把它变成动词:“在未来的生活中作王”(Get ready to king in our future lives.)。他说:“基督徒将 —— 很快,我希望 —— 成为管理国家的完美权威!”
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1. Ronald Sider, “The Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience, Why don't Christians live what they preach?” http://www.ctlibrary.com/bc/2005/janfeb/3.8.html.
2. John Fea, “Trump Threatens to Change the Course of American Christianity,” Washington Post, 2019-1-17.
3. 批评者众,仅列举几个有代表性的:
a) Justin Taylor, “Christian History: How David Barton Is Doing It Wrong,” The Gospel Coalition, 2017-5-12;
b) Thomas Kidd, “The David Barton Controversy,” The World Magazine, 2012-8-7;
c) David Throckmorton, “David Barton’s Conservative Critics: Debunking the Liberals Attack Claim,” https://www.wthrockmorton.com/20 ... ral-attack-claims/;
d) Debunking the Jefferson lies, https://www.debunkingbarton.com/index.html.
4. Joe Heim, “Jerry Falwell Jr. Can’t Imagine Trump ‘Doing Anything That’s Not Good for the Country’,” Washington Post Magazine, 2019-1-1.
5. David R. Brockman, “The Little-Known Theology Behind White Evangelical Support of Donald Trump,” Texas Observer, 2018-3-29.
6. a) Bob Smietana访问Brad Christerson与Richard Flory记录稿:” The 'Prophets' and 'Apostles' Leading the Quiet Revolution in American Religion,” Christianity Today, 2017-8-3.
b) Brad Christerson & Richard Flory, “How a Christian movement is growing rapidly in the midst of religious decline,” 2017-3-15, https://theconversation.com/how- ... ious-decline-73507.
7. Tara Isabella Burton, “Christian Nationalism, Explained through One Pro-Trump Propaganda Film,” VOX, 2018-10-8.
8. Carol Kuruvilla, “An Evangelical University Is Helping Create A Movie About How Trump Was Chosen By God,” Huffpost, 2018-6-5.
9. David Frum, “Dinesh D’Souza and the Decline of Conservatism,” Atlantic, 2018-8-12.
10. Michael Gerson, “Evangelicals Have Hired Their Own Goliath,” Washington Post, 2019-1-3.