The Religious Rhetoric of Anti-Trump Evangelicals in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election

Autor

  • Martin Medhurst Baylor University, Waco, Texas

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29107/rr2017.2.1

Abstrakt

Esej analizuje trzy argumenty formułowane przez Ewangelików, którzy sprzeciwiali się kandydaturze
Donalda Trumpa w wyborach prezydenckich w USA w 2016 roku. Poprzez wyjaśnienie argumentów z charakteru, polityki i świadectw ewangelicznych, autor pokazuje, jak ta grupa retorów, będąca w mniejszości zarówno w amerykańskim ewangelizmie, jak i w amerykańskim elektoracie, wykorzystywała swój status mniejszości do formułowania profetycznej przestrogi przeciwko kandydaturze Trumpa. W ten sposób rozwinęli oni retorykę silną politycznie, pozostając wiernymi ewangelickiej teologii i historii. Paradoksalnie, to dzięki przegranej w wyborach retorzy będący w opozycji do Donalda Trumpa wywalczyli okazję do zamanifestowania swojej ewangelicznej retoryki politycznej i planu politycznych działań.

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Opublikowane

2017-07-01

Jak cytować

Medhurst, Martin. 2017. „The Religious Rhetoric of Anti-Trump Evangelicals in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election”. "Res Rhetorica" 4 (2). https://doi.org/10.29107/rr2017.2.1.