Sidney W. A. Dekker, PhD, is Professor and Chaplain at Griffith University, in Brisbane, Australia, and Doctor of Theology candidate at the Theological University of Apeldoorn in the Netherlands.
Cheap Grace and the Alliance between Evangelical Christianity and Authoritarianism
April/May 2026: Ethics and Democracy (Volume 26 Issue 2)
Introduction [1] Alliances between conservative religious movements and authoritarianism are not historically anomalous, nor uniquely Christian. But with democracy and its legitimacy on the wane in the West,[1] Trumpism’s overwhelming mobilisation of, and sustained appeal to, evangelical Christianity has spurred a re-examination.[2] Trumpism shows that the conservative-religious/authoritarian alliance promises moral and national restoration without the […]