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Thesis Excerpt #3 : (Continuing to describe the problem) "This utilitarian theology has broad implications for the church. Catholic theologian Leonardo Boff named the risk when Christians commit themselves to hierarchy: 'The monarchical conception of power...
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is likely to give rise to authoritarianism matched by subservience. There is a shift from a church as communion of believers, all equal and sharing responsibility, to a church as society, with unequal distribution of functions and tasks' ...
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Even worse, this theology underwrites dehumanization and violence when in service to any aim deemed righteous. In an editorial critical of American Evangelical support for the January 6th, 2021, storming of the U.S. Capital,
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noted conservative Baptist theologian and ethicist Russell Moore wrote, 'One cannot carry Good News to people you might, if things get bad enough, have to beat up or kill . . . One cannot ‘stand for truth’ by employing lies.'
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In a subsequent interview discussing the escalation of violent Christian rhetoric, Moore recounted pastors’ experience with parishioners reacting to the Sermon on the Mount as “woke” and “weak."
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Reflecting on this trend, Moore commented, 'Such is the sign not of a post-Christian culture but of a post-Christian Christianity..."
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