American Christians in the Age of Trump

When:
26th January 2017 @ 8:00 pm
2017-01-26T20:00:00+00:00
2017-01-26T20:15:00+00:00
Cost:
Free
Contact:
The Iona Institute
01 6619 204
American Christians in the Age of Trump

Venue: Davenport hotel, Dublin 2

Our next talk will be delivered by RR Reno, editor of First Things, a journal of religion and public life based in New York city. The talk could hardly be more topical as it will be delivered only days after the inauguration of Donald Trump as the President of the United States.

What are American (and other) Christians to make of Trump? Why did a huge majority of Evangelical Christians vote for a man who is not religious and whose personal life has so often been so out-of-step with Christian morality? Why did a majority of Catholics also vote for him? What will his presidency mean for Christians, and what would a Clinton presidency have meant?

RR Reno will consider these questions and more. He will also consider the place of Christians in an increasingly hostile public square more generally.

Russell Ronald Reno was formerly a professor of theology and ethics at Creighton University. He is the author of several books, including most recently Resurrecting the Idea of a Christian Society.

He was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1959. He attended Haverford College, receiving a B.A. in 1983. He began graduate study at Yale University in the Department of Religious Studies in 1984 and completed his doctoral degree in 1990 in the area of religious ethics.  He received his first faculty appointment at Creighton University in 1990, where he taught until 2010 when he took an extended academic leave to work full-time at First Things.