Prophecy and Progress: Christianity and Dissent in Modern America

Abstract

The categories of left and right, and the standard interpretive alignments of progressive Christianity with postmillennialism and of right-wing Protestantism with premillennialist fatalism in US historiography, are far from adequate. Prophetic politics, calling contemporary society to account for its ungodly ways, was widely dispersed among modern American Christians along the whole political spectrum. Moreover, there were many prophetic postmillennialists, who denounced society's iniquity while working to realize God's Kingdom, and there were reform premillennialists, who lamented a fallen world even as, paradoxically, they worked to make it more godly and less satanic.

The relationship between individual differences in religion, religious primes, and the moral foundations

“…These differences might be partially explained by the distinction between progressive and conservative religiousness (e.g. Carl et al, 2016; Rossinow, 2015). Although some types of religiousness may place more emphasis on compassion for individuals and addressing inequalities (e.g.…”