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Age of Fracture

Sources on the history of religious-based vaccine resistance in America

John Fea   |  December 3, 2021

I included a lot of history in today's Current feature on vaccine exemptions. The piece draws on a talk I gave earlier this week to the constituents of the Council of Foreign Relations. I am told that the video will be available soon. Since we don't do footnotes at Current, I thought I would list the sources that informed my piece: Arthur Allen, Vaccine: The Controversial Story of Medicine's Greatest Lifesaver (New York: W.W. Norton, 2008). James Colgrove, State of … [Read more...] about Sources on the history of religious-based vaccine resistance in America

The “Age of Fracture” and Evangelicalism

John Fea   |  January 29, 2020

In his 2011 Bancroft Prize-winning book The Age of Fracture, Princeton intellectual historian Daniel Rodgers writes: Across multiple fronts of ideational battle, from the speeches of presidents to books of social and cultural theory, conceptions of human nature that in the post-World War II era had been think with context, social circumstances, institutions, and history gave way to conceptions of human nature that stressed choice, agency, performance, and desire.  Strong … [Read more...] about The “Age of Fracture” and Evangelicalism

The Court Evangelicals Feel Betrayed By *Christianity Today*

John Fea   |  December 23, 2019

Last night I re-read the court evangelical letter to Tim Dalrymple, the CEO of Christianity Today.  Read the letter here.  I offered some commentary here. I was struck by this passage (italics mine): Of course, it’s up to your publication to decide whether or not your magazine intends to be a voice of evangelicals like those represented by the signatories below, and it is up to us and those Evangelicals like us to decide if we should subscribe to, advertise in and read your … [Read more...] about The Court Evangelicals Feel Betrayed By *Christianity Today*

Who Speaks for Evangelicalism?

John Fea   |  December 14, 2019

I was struck by this question again yesterday in class.  We were reading Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural Address and I was asking students to compare Lincoln's moral vision in the address with the anti-Confederate writings of some 19th-century Christian leaders.  One of those Christian leaders was Henry Ward Beecher, the clergyman who historian Debby Applegate described as "The Most Famous Man in America." Beecher's wanted to punish the post-war South for its sins.  Lincoln, as … [Read more...] about Who Speaks for Evangelicalism?

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