Dominionism

Dominionism is significantly breaking down the walls between Church and Corporations.

Bush Slanders Freedom « Antiwar.com Blog 2008

These recent actions are the product of a force in America, often dubbed Dominionism, which is nurtured by highly placed and well compensated ministers, such as the late Jerry Falwell … and our own neighbor, James Dobson.

Press Commentary on Threats at Colorado - The Panda's Thumb 2007

The conference in New York in spring 2005 examined a phenomenon known as Dominionism -- the belief that godly Christians are now mandated by the Lord to take political power to purify America, return it to its Christian origins, and create a biblical society with biblical laws for biblical crimes.

Ralph White: Looking Deeper into Palin's Beliefs 2008

Those outside the movement call it Dominionism, from the biblical injunction that man should take dominion over the Earth.

News - latimes.com 2011

He was a major contributor to the school of thought now known as Dominionism, which relies on Genesis 1:26, where man is urged to "have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth."

NYT > Home Page By ROSS DOUTHAT 2011

Bush, according to one entirely fictional account, was converted to "Dominionism" - a kind of Christian Wahhabism - by Assemblies of God pastors who provided him "explicit coaching."

The Washington Post: National, World & D.C. Area News and Headlines - The Washington Post Michael Gerson 2011

By attending the event, Perry had aligned himself with a radical religious movement called the New Apostolic Reformation NAR, which is built upon a concept called "Dominionism," and amounts to a coup de god.

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com James Moore 2011

The school of thought "now known as Dominionism," meanwhile, is so known primarily among its critics: Many of the people that writers like Diamond and others describe as "dominionists" would disavow the label, many definitions of dominionism conflate several very different Christian political theologies, and there's a lively debate about whether the term is even useful at all.

NYT > Home Page By ROSS DOUTHAT 2011

Daily Beast writer Michelle Goldberg has a good read on a secret Christian fundamentalist sect known as Dominionism.

NY Daily News 2011

A branch of this ideology, called Dominionism, is tied to all of this - they believe that they have "God's mandate" to take over this country and the world for their idea of Christianity - and have openly called for the overthrow of the constitution.

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