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Joey Cochran

The Vincentian Vision of Classical Christianity

The Vincentian Vision of Classical Christianity

I oscillate between despair and hope over the future prospect of evangelicalism. My reservation about it is driven by my perception of the movement’s fraught historical past and trends in its present. The evangelical past has been connected to various sorts of oppression—including exploitation and displacement of Natives, participation and preservation of chattel slavery, and perpetuation of patriarchy. Evangelicals in the present are culpable for the ghastly continuation of white male supremacy for the sake of a Christian Nationalist vision.