Heresy and Its Uses: A Twentieth-Century Heresiarch and his Evangelical Detractors

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dc.contributor.authorWest, Taylor Cade
dc.contributor.editorSimkins, Ronald A.
dc.date.accessioned2022-11-07T15:38:47Z
dc.date.available2022-11-07T15:38:47Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractThe embers of heresy in Christianity were neither snuffed out in antiquity nor in the Middle Ages. The United States of the twentieth century was home to its own champions of theological unorthodoxy; chief among them was Herbert W. Armstrong, whom conservative evangelicals branded as dangerously and even satanically heretical. Despite Armstrong’s straying from traditional Protestant orthodoxy, from the 1930s onward, he was able to create a massive publishing and religious “empire,” as evangelicals called it. Although Armstrong had a global footprint, the scholarship on American religion is largely silent when it comes to this religious leader. Even less has been written about the tension between evangelicals and Armstrong, their theological opponent. This article brings to light this history of accusations of heresy, examining the rhetoric that surrounded it and how the allegation of theological unorthodoxy fit and fed into an atmosphere of alarm during the Cold War.|Keywords: Heresy, Evangelicalism, Herbert W. Armstrong, Worldwide Church of God, American Christianityen_US
dc.description.volume24en_US
dc.identifier.issn1522-5658en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10504/138629
dc.publisherRabbi Myer and Dorothy Kripke Center, Creighton Universityen_US
dc.publisher.locationOmaha, Nebraskaen_US
dc.rightsThe journal is open-access and freely allows users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of all published material for personal or academic purposes.en_US
dc.rights.holderRabbi Myer and Dorothy Kripke Center, Creighton Universityen_US
dc.titleHeresy and Its Uses: A Twentieth-Century Heresiarch and his Evangelical Detractorsen_US
dc.title.workJournal of Religion & Societyen_US
dc.typeJournal Articleen_US
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