Review: Kaveny's Prophecy Without Contempt, Part II | National Catholic Reporter

Review: Kaveny's Prophecy Without Contempt, Part II | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: The connection of goodness to material wealth by the Puritans is the start of the prosperity gospel and its later day prophet, Donald Trump, whose denomination evolved from the Puritans.  My people became Quakers and set out for Providence, generations later becoming Disciples of Christ, where some of my cousins are still a strong pressence.  The Disciples are interesting, because their goal is to duplicate the theology and practice of the early Church (according to the Bible of course - they don't quite get to pre-biblical Christianity and its explicit communism).  We don't all like the Glorious Revolution, as some of us have Plantagenet and Tudor ancestry and could have been called upon rather than the Oranges.  On the Jeremiad, unless it is used as a tool to perfect religion, rather than just civil society, it rings hollow. Of course, the best use of it in American history has been the Abolitionist Movement (and civil rights), the worst the self-serving pro-life movement, to which the bishops seem to flock for their own purposes (although at least they don't become rich or gain political office fundraising for it)