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Introduction: American Babylon?
Part I: Elective affinities: Christianity and democracy in Western history
1 Is democracy Christian?
Prologue: elective affinities
Christian ethics and democratic politics
The four layers of Western democracy
Republican democracy
Representative democracy
Liberal democracy
The fourth layer: social democracy
Conclusion: democracy and religion
Note
References
2 Is Christianity democratic?
Ancient Israel: covenants and kings
Hello Weber
References
4 The Republican captivity
Prologue: the monkey trial
The problem: changing affinities
Foreign policy: from progressive anti-imperialism to American exceptionalism
Economic policy: from social gospel to CEO Jesus
Social policy: from Hatrack to Roe v. Wade
White supremacism: the fourth leg
Conclusion: Babylonian captivity or Republican captivity?
References
5 White Christian nationalism
Why did (white) evangelicals vote for Trump?
Evangelicalism and white Christian nationalism
White Christian nationalism: a brief history
The early Christians: siblings and patriarchs
Late antiquity: cities and empires
The middle ages: popes and councils
Reformations: communal and magisterial?
Modernity: revolution or reaction?
The modern era: dictators and democrats
Conclusion: sovereign God or triune God?
References
Part II: Changing chemistries: Christianity and democracy in American history
3 Goodbye Tocqueville?
Christianity and democracy in Tocqueville's America
From moral consensus to culture war
The anti-politics of the apocalypse
America's churches: from little republics to big firms
Trumpism as white Christian nationalism
Do white Evangelicals still support American democracy?
Conclusion: can evangelical Christianity and liberal democracy co-exist?
References
Conclusion: the Constantinian temptation
References
Index