A steadily growing number of disillusioned evangelicals are finding comfort in the subversive doctrines of Christian Reconstructionism. As noted by Andrew Walker in an essay about the movement, those taking in the notions of Reconstructionism suffer mostly from dissatisfaction with how evangelicals have popularly handled secularism’s rejection of traditional values and religion’s role in public life. Crawford Gribben has documented its pocketed but influential resurgence in the Pacific Northwest with his newest work, Survival and Resistance in Evangelical America: Christian Reconstruction in the Pacific Northwest. As he recounts, its humblest advocates simply find Reconstructionism’s mission dedicated to beginning a new Christendom more persuasive than what they see as hackneyed means of cultural engagement amongst mainstream evangelicals.
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