Category: Christianity, Page 23
Lutheran Orthodoxy and Pietism
Occidental Dissent - Dec 15th 2019 3:48pm ESTI spent much of last year studying the Reformation. I’m currently studying the period between the Peace of Augsburg and the Enlightenment and exploring how Lutheranism continued to evolve in Northern Europe in the late 16th, 17th and early 18th centuries. This period is roughly bounded by Luther’s death and Immanuel Kant and Friedrich Schleiermacher […]
The Hell Question: Do Trump’s Evangelicals Believe Jews Need Jesus?
Occidental Dissent - Dec 13th 2019 7:04pm EST
I’ve become a big fan of TruNews. I believe that Rick Wiles and Doc Burkhart are doing some of the most important work that is going on right now. We’ve long needed someone to go after these Christian Zionist mountebanks like John Hagee. This was one of the biggest failings of the Alt-Right. Today on […]The Atlantic: The Christian Withdrawal Experiment
Occidental Dissent - Dec 13th 2019 1:46pm ESTSt. Marys, KS is a town of 2,627 people which has been taken over by Trad Catholics. They run the town now. The Atlantic: “Half an hour down the highway from Topeka, Kansas, not far from the geographic center of the United States, sits the town of St. Marys. Like many towns in the region, […]
How We Learned That Slavery Is Wrong
Occidental Dissent - Dec 12th 2019 12:30pm ESTAlec Ryrie is the author of Protestants: The Faith That Made The Modern World. He has a new book out called Unbelievers: An Emotional History of Doubt. I will be reading and reviewing both books here in 2020. These lectures are basically chapters from his book. Is Protestant Christianity incompatible with racialism, white supremacy and […]
Charles XI and Swedish Absolutism
Occidental Dissent - Dec 12th 2019 9:40am ESTEditor’s Note: This is a work in progress.
Pastor Hagee Applauds Trump For Signing Executive Order Combating Anti-Semitism
Occidental Dissent - Dec 11th 2019 6:40pm EST
SO GREAT! The forgotten people thank the orthodox CHOSEN for supporting their CHOSEN President! My administration has been mandated by God to stamp out antisemitism all over world. We will continue BUILDING THE WALL to hold back the hateful supremacist rise in antisemitism! https://t.co/ANrSXsI6CP— Emperor President God King BIumpf (@PunishedGodKing) December 11, 2019 THANK YOU, […]Liberal Christianity
Occidental Dissent - Dec 11th 2019 6:17pm ESTThere are a lot of non-Christians who read this site who are alienated from Christianity for various reasons which they tend to assume are inherent to Christianity. This isn’t their fault. They weren’t raised as Christians and have likely been repeatedly told this by Christians. We’re constantly told that Christianity is incompatible with “racism” and […]
Liberalism and the Church
Occidental Dissent - Dec 10th 2019 3:49pm ESTWe’re continuing our series on illiberal Protestantism. So far, we have looked at Martin Luther’s Two Kingdoms doctrine and how Lutheranism has traditionally held that God governs his earthly kingdom or “the left hand realm” of the world through the structures of the Orders of Creation – family and work, the church and the state […]
Scandinavia In the Age of Revolution
Occidental Dissent - Dec 9th 2019 11:09pm ESTIs Protestantism necessarily liberal? Is Protestantism opposed to racialism and anti-Semitism? Is Protestantism opposed to nationalism and authoritarianism? These questions have drawn my attention lately. We’ve already seen how church and state used to be integrated in Lutheran Europe before the Napoleonic Wars and how Protestants supported the Third Reich. We have also seen how […]
The Gospel of Apartheid
Occidental Dissent - Dec 9th 2019 12:11pm ESTIs Protestantism necessarily liberal? Is Christianity incompatible with “racism” and “white supremacy”? Yesterday, we looked at how Lutherans supported National Socialist Germany and justified it on the basis of Luther’s Two Kingdoms doctrine and even welcomed the Third Reich as a triumph over liberalism and communism. Christians were more eager to collaborate with the Nazis […]
The Age of Lutheran Orthodoxy
Occidental Dissent - Dec 8th 2019 8:27pm ESTEditor’s Note: This is a work in progress. Liberalism didn’t exist in Martin Luther and John Calvin’s time. As I explained earlier, Protestantism WAS NOT always liberal. It developed centuries later and then mostly in the context of the religious pluralism of the Anglo and Dutch world. The following excerpt comes from Eric W. Gritsch’s […]
Two Kingdoms In The Third Reich
Occidental Dissent - Dec 8th 2019 1:35pm ESTEditor’s Note: This is a work in progress. “It does not have to do with Jewish hatred – one can reach an agreement with serious Jews on this point – it does not have to do with blood, also not with the religious beliefs of Judaism. But it does involve the threat of a quite […]
Theologians Under Hitler
Occidental Dissent - Dec 7th 2019 2:11am ESTNow watching:
First Things: Rehabilitating The “Orders of Creation”
Occidental Dissent - Dec 6th 2019 2:35pm ESTI’ve been critical of the First Things crowd like Matthew Schmitz and Sohrab Ahmari and their Trad Cath version of “post-liberalism.” I was pleasantly surprised though this morning to find this old essay from thirty years ago by Carl E. Braaten, a leading American Lutheran theologian, which brings up the work of the 19th century […]
Christianity and Time
Occidental Dissent - Nov 27th 2019 11:57pm ESTI would like to start off this article by recalling an exchange of words that I had last year with Connor Grubaugh of First Things: First Things: “One might wonder how Wallace’s racialized Christianity could possibly account for the New Testament, among other notorious sticking points of the faith. But to assert orthodox doctrine against […]
Catholic Populists Respond To Catholic Elitists
Occidental Dissent - Nov 27th 2019 2:22pm ESTThe battle is on. Whose side are you on in the Catholic Right Civil War? Sohrab Ahmari and Matthew Schmitz or Nick Fuentes, Dave Reilly and E. Michael Jones? Nick Fuentes responds to Matthew Schmitz: Tonight, @NickJFuentes demonstrated that he has a better understanding of #Catholic Theology, and frankly bigger balls than 95% of supposedly […]
Which Way Catholic Man?
Occidental Dissent - Nov 26th 2019 6:58pm ESTMatthew Schmitz has a new article in First Things bellyaching about how China is tyrannical for violating the human rights of Muslims in Xinjiang. First Things: “In 2018, Archbishop Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo, chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, said in an interview: “Right now, those who are best implementing the social doctrine of […]
Church of England: Christianity Led To The Holocaust
Occidental Dissent - Nov 24th 2019 9:16am ESTWhy is Christianity a dying religion in the West? I’ve thought a lot about this question over the past decade. I started out as an atheist convinced that Christianity was a weak and degenerate religion and that it had naturally evolved into its present state as a result of Christian theology. As I thought more […]
Pronoun Hospitality
Occidental Dissent - Nov 22nd 2019 4:23pm ESTFor what it’s worth, I thought my friend @andrewtwalk article on pronoun usage was excellent, further clarifying some of these issues. I love his spirit & find myself in ready agreement with him—& in his longer treatment in his book ‘God and T debate’https://t.co/at3OibOnvZ— J.D. Greear (@jdgreear) November 22, 2019 H/T Rod Dreher Eric Striker […]
Sohrab Ahmari: Joker and Our Crisis Of Solidarity
Occidental Dissent - Nov 20th 2019 4:49pm ESTpic.twitter.com/ZwxbWyV1HF— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) February 24, 2019 We’re fully aware that Marco Rubio has been trying rebrand himself to run for president again as an “American Nationalist” and “common-good conservative.” No, we don’t believe that Marco Rubio’s rebranding as a “common-good conservative” or the Center Right trying to rebrand itself as “National Conservatism” is anything […]