July 17, 2017

Chad Pecknold, associate professor, theology, was quoted in a Catholic News Agency critique of Civilta Cattolica’s analysis of US Christianity. He was also quoted in a Catholic World Report analysis of the piece. 

... Dr. Chad Pecknold, a professor of theology at the Catholic University of America, told CNA that although the authors alleged that many American Christians have a “Manichean” outlook on politics, of good versus evil, “the authors themselves sound quite Manichaean in their absolute opposition to their caricature of Christian conservatives in America.”

“The authors make a great number of errors, both historically, descriptively, and in their diagnosis of what ails America, and Christian conservatives more specifically,” he continued. ...

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