Christian Extremism: The Heresy and Its Consequences
January 5–26, February 9, 2025, 11:00 am
Jim Aageson
Fellowship Hall
How do we untie the Gordian knot regarding the relationship between extremist religion and national politics? We might state the problem this way: religion and politics should remain separate because they have the potential to corrupt each other; religion and politics cannot remain separate because people’s fundamental values will and ought to inform the social and political order. But what happens when extremist religion (right-wing Christianity in this case) and extremist politics (Extremist right-wing American politics in this case) join hands? This is the world that Tim Alberta leads us into in his recent book: The Kingdom, The Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicalism in an Age of Extremism. Using a discussion format, we will follow Alberta into this world to examine this contemporary Christian heresy and its many consequences.
Sessions: (Click on date to view class on YouTube)
January 5
January 12
January 19
January 26
February 2 [No class: Super Bible Bowl]
February 9