IMMORTAL WIDOW

   IMMORTAL WIDOW

"Generational theory" connects recurring historical crises cycles with generational personas (archetypes).  Each generational persona unleashes a status quo busting new era in which for about 20 years a new social, political, and economic climate takes hold. (*1a)

The theory sees the reoccurring cycles as challenging, but necessary. stages.  America is currently facing a great crisis that will possibly bring about the collapse of the “Judeo-Christian West, "in an worldwide radical transformation. (*1b)

While I agree with the theory, I disagree with political tacticians, like Steve Bannon, who argue that the crises requires a reassertion of what he and the Christian Right call ‘traditional values" to combat secularism and other non-Christian influences. (*1c)

As a Christian myself I believe in this period of social, political, and economic upheaval, our tactic should be the resurrection of Christian, not it's Westernized 'traditional values'.

Generations of Western Christianity has contributed to its own weakness by divorcing its original source of spiritual power when it wedded itself to the powers of the world.  Now that those mortal powers; social, political, and economic are passing away it fears a strangely immortal sort of powerless widowhood. (*2a)

Throughout history, Christianity has made this same recurring wedding blunder.  Each time the mortal groom died, be it ancient Rome or Europe's feudal system, it was only reasonable that philosophers of that time would conclude Christianity would die also.  But it didn't. (*2b)
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*1 (a, b, c) Strauss - Howe,
   "Generational Theory"
*2 (a+b) G. K. Chesterton,
  "The Everlasting Man"