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Evangelical Politics
Theologically speaking, it is easy to see why conservative evangelists should be attracted to television as a medium: television serves as the equivalent of a vast revival tent, offering immediate
mass escape from eternal damnation. But why a mass television audience should be attracted to a specifically fundamentalist theology is—in the abstract—less understandable. From a doctrinal point of view, fundamentalism is, after all, a gloomy and demanding
enterprise that goes against much of what has long been assumed to be American political life: faith in science, faith in human nature, and faith that man can improve the conditions of life on earth.
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