One more morsel to chew on from Richard Lovelace, Dynamics of Spiritual Life
“By the 1930s the average American Fundamentalist was not, at least, a proponent of theocracy, but he did have a way of confusing America, the Republican Party and the capitalist system with the kingdom of God.”
I guess things don’t change much. Tim Keller makes this observation in the forward to a new book by Michael Gerson and Peter Wehner, City of Man: Religion and Politics in a New Era
“A very large number of young evangelicals believe that their churches have become as captured by the Right as mainline churches were captured by the Left.”