Their Kingdom Come: Dominionism's Quest for Political Capital in the Emergent World Order
Dominionism: Marrying Christianity to the Kosmos
In John 18:33, Pilate asked Jesus, "Art thou the King of the Jews?" In John 18:36, Jesus replied, "My kingdom is not of this world." The original Greek word for "world" is kosmos, which connotes an arrangement, system, order, or government. Jesus was not expressing derision for the physical world, but with the usurious political systems that had come to dominate it. Some Christians have construed this response as a rationale for indolence and have embraced an apathetic brand of political abdication theology. However, Christian proponents of political abdication fail to consider the transliteration of kosmos and the historical background against which the term was invoked. Jesus was not condemning political activism. Instead, He was condemning the world's political systems of that time, specifically the oligarchical model of the Roman Empire and its surrogate, the theocracy of the Pharisees.
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