Book contents
- Democracy in Times of Pandemic
- Democracy in Times of Pandemic
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction: A New Beginning
- Part I Power
- 1 The Crisis of Democratic Leadership in Times of Pandemic
- 2 Executive Overreach and Underreach in the Pandemic
- 3 From Political Accountability to Criminal Liability: The Strange Case of French Penal Populism
- 4 Democracy and Emergency in Latin America
- 5 Apocalyptic Christianity, Democracy, and the Pandemic
- Part II Knowledge
- Part III Citizens
5 - Apocalyptic Christianity, Democracy, and the Pandemic
from Part I - Power
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 November 2020
- Democracy in Times of Pandemic
- Democracy in Times of Pandemic
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction: A New Beginning
- Part I Power
- 1 The Crisis of Democratic Leadership in Times of Pandemic
- 2 Executive Overreach and Underreach in the Pandemic
- 3 From Political Accountability to Criminal Liability: The Strange Case of French Penal Populism
- 4 Democracy and Emergency in Latin America
- 5 Apocalyptic Christianity, Democracy, and the Pandemic
- Part II Knowledge
- Part III Citizens
Summary
“Barmen! We need something like the Barmen Declaration that challenged the German Christians’ accommodation with Hitler.” That was my first thought on May 22, 2020, when I read US President Donald Trump’s order for churches, synagogues, and mosques to open and welcome all those ready to respond to his desire that everyone to return to church. After prohibiting the gathering of diverse groups in the first weeks of response to the virus, Trump suddenly commanded Christians, Jews, and Muslims to open their places of worship as if the virus did not exist.
On reflection, I thought I was letting my dislike of Trump tempt me to overreact to his sudden call for religious people to attend church. Trump was urging Christians to return to church as a sign he had defeated or come close to defeating the virus.
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- Democracy in Times of PandemicDifferent Futures Imagined, pp. 77 - 84Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020