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Hijacked Christianity: How An Aberrant Eschatology Enables A Grievance Culture That Supplants Christian Grace For An Extremist Meritocracy

Sharp, David
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The Evangelical participation attack on Capitol Hill that happened on January 6th, 2021, that almost toppled American Democracy, was an eye-opening experience to the dangers of radicalization. For this paper, the central question is, do recent evolutions to Christian Eschatology (Premillennialism/Postmillennialism) give exigence to the radicalization of mainstream American Evangelicalism via a Dominionist ideology? This study is a rhetorical criticism that will examine sermons of four prominent Neo Charismatic around the time of the 2020 National COVID Lockdown Announcement and the Capitol Hill Insurrection. This study uses a Constant Comparative Method (CCM) to inductively identify the possible themes, and a Cultural Discourse Analysis (CuDA) to provide a more detailed examination of their rhetoric. Findings illustrate that increases in Millennialism rhetoric correlate with radicalization tendencies to create grievances that dehumanize outsiders while stoking existential crises in their own members to propel them into action via quests of significance.

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2022-05-04
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Amillennialism, Bethel Church, Demonology, Dispensationalism, Eschatology, Glossolalia, International House of Prayer (iHOP), Kansas City Prophets, Kingdom Now, Latter Rain Movement, Neo Charismatic, New Apostolic Reformation(NAR), New Order of the Latter Rain, (NOLR), Postmillennialism, Premillennialism, Rapture, Seven Mountain Mandate, Spiritual Gifts, Spiritual Warfare, The Third Wave, Tribulation, YWAM, Ideology, Narrative, Seduction, Utopia, Metaphor, Meaning, Mystification, Identity, Constitutive Rhetoric, Interpellation, Mortification, Victimage, Scapegoating, Quest for Significance, Existential Crisis, Cognitive Enclosure, Cognitive Link, Grievance, Othering
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Sharp, David (2022). "Hijacked Christianity: How An Aberrant Eschatology Enables A Grievance Culture That Supplants Christian Grace For An Extremist Meritocracy." Thesis, Georgia State University. https://doi.org/10.57709/28912982
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2022-04-29
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