Episode 45: Scandal of the Evangelical (and Liberal) Mind

Danny is joined by Coyle Neal (of the City of Man Podcast) and C. Derick Varn (of every other podcast in the world) for a discussion about Mark Noll’s seminal book Scandal of the Evangelical Mind. Rather than just discussing the book on its own terms though, the trio apply its analysis and conclusions to American Liberalism as well. The result is a sprawling, detail-rich episode, filled with plenty to consider as we think about the state of the American intellect in the Twenty-First Century.

Topics:
Derick in Mormon-landia
CHRN back online
The listener contest concludes!
The Scandal, sacred and secular
Atheism tasting Protestanty
Jonathan Edwards as godfather
Proto-populism
The Scottish Enlightenment
Cultural Panic and the Nashville Statement
Activism, Biblicism, Intuition, Populism
Dispensationalism
Broad Brush!
Evangelical College vs. Evangelical University
Patterns of Thought versus Participation in American Culture
Separation of church and state and “Religious Deregulation”
Rhetorical Revivalism
Missionaries
Political power over religion
The Joel Osteenification of Christianity
Applying Noll’s argument to the American Left and Right
Manichaeism in Evangelicals and Liberals
Ken Ham and “Thinking Correctly” through Intuition ugh
Religion’s importance for politics
Evangelicals and the Alt-Right
The Evangelical withdraw into their own media spaces
Urbanization and the Republic
Art rejecting didacticism
Can Democracy work?
City of Man on Marxism
Do Marxists accept original sin?
The problems of Enlightenment

Links:
Scandal of the Evangelical Mind
https://www.amazon.com/Scandal-Evangelical-Mind-Mark-Noll/dp/0802841805

Nathan Hatch, The Democratization of American Christianity
https://www.amazon.com/Democratization-American-Christianity-Nathan-Hatch/dp/0300050607

Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/weber/protestant-ethic/

Steve Bruce, God is Dead: Secularization in the West
https://www.amazon.com/God-Dead-Secularization-Steve-Bruce/dp/0631232753







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