{"id":614,"date":"2014-06-11T18:44:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T18:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2014\/06\/david-brat-embrace-christian-capitalism-or-hitler-will-come-back.html"},"modified":"2014-06-11T18:44:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T18:44:00","slug":"david-brat-embrace-christian-capitalism-or-hitler-will-come-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2014\/06\/david-brat-embrace-christian-capitalism-or-hitler-will-come-back.html","title":{"rendered":"David Brat: Embrace Christian Capitalism, Or Hitler Will Come Back"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
When David Brat defeated House Majority leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) in the Republican primary of Virginia\u2019s 7th Congressional District last night, House Republicans\u00a0likely lost their only Jewish representative<\/a>. In his place, they may have gained a radically pro-capitalist Christian theologian.<\/span><\/div>\n
Christian Tea Party candidates are certainly not unusual, but a trail of writings show that Brat, an economics professor at Randolph-Macon college, has an especially radical theology to support his right-wing politics.\u00a0Brat\u2019s CV<\/a>\u00a0lists him as a graduate of Hope College, a Christian school in Michigan, and Princeton Theological Seminary, a Presbyterian Church U.S.A. seminary in New Jersey. He claims to be a \u201cfairly orthodox Calvinist,\u201d but several of his published writings expose a unsettling core theology that is centered around lifting up unregulated, free-market capitalism as a morally righteous system that churches should embrace\u2014or else.<\/span><\/div>\n
In a 2011 paper entitled \u201cGod and the Advanced Mammon \u2014 Can Theological Types Handle Usury and Capitalism?\u201d, published in\u00a0Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology<\/em>, Brat champions the moral superiority of the capitalistic system. \u201cCapitalist markets and their expansion in China and India have provided more for the common good, more \u2018social welfare,\u2019 than any other policy in the past ten years,\u201d he writes, adding \u201cSo, as a seminary student concerned with human welfare, I naturally wanted to learn about these free markets.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
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When David Brat defeated House Majority leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) in the Republican primary of Virginia\u2019s 7th Congressional District last night, House Republicans\u00a0likely lost their only Jewish representative. In his place, they may have gained a radically pro-capitalist Christian theologian. 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