Matthew D. Taylor

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Media Mention

Baptist News Global: ‘Time for a theological confrontation’ with Christian nationalism, Taylor says

Matthew Taylor, a visiting scholar at Georgetown University’s Center on Faith and Justice, is promoting his new book published last week. Defying Tyrants argues that Jesus and the early church were deeply anti-authoritarian. 

To promote the book, Taylor published a Substack explaining the “primal theological scream” he believes is required for Christians to repudiate a “world of Christian antichrists” including Donald Trump and others in his orbit.

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Op-Ed

The Bulwark: How Vance and Thiel Get the Antichrist Backwards

What the biblical concept of antichrists warns about is exactly the theological offense Vance and Thiel commit in their ruminations on the Antichrist: They co-opt the empathetic and self-sacrificial vision of the kingdom of God and twist it to mask their own selfish ambitions. They build new authoritarian systems, justify violence and the dehumanization of migrant communities, embrace the way of a conquering empire, and call it gospel.

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Podcast

God's Politics with Jim Wallis: Defying Tyrants, Matthew D. Taylor on Jesus, Empire, and Christian Antichrists

Taylor, an authoritative voice on the dangers of Christian Nationalism and avisiting scholar at Georgetown University’s Center on Faith + Justice, examines what happens when Christians harm others in Jesus’ name while claiming divine authority for political power. He traces the long history of Christianity’s entanglement with empire—from Constantine’s conversion through today’s Christian Nationalist Movements—and calls the church back to the anti-authoritarian way of Jesus.