FDR's First Inaugural
This famous phrase from FDR reframes the crisis as psychological rather than purely economic.
What is “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself”?
Contrary to critics, Sutton argues this effect of premillennial belief on political behavior.
Action, not passivity.
McIntyre argues that the Bible consistently supports this economic system.
Private enterprise
McIntyre seems to identify with this type of interpretive method
literalism
FDR describes economic elites using this biblical metaphor, casting them as morally corrupt figures.
What are “money changers”?
Name one historical figure evangelicals interpreted as a possible Antichrist.
Who is Mussolini (or Stalin)?
McIntyre grounds individual rights—especially property—in this biblical passage.
What are the Ten Commandments?
McIntyre represents this religious movement introduced in class today
Fundamentalism
According to FDR, what is the real failure behind the Depression—not natural scarcity but this?
What is the failure of financial systems' leadership
Sutton argues that reading current events through scripture gives believers this kind of authority.
Interpretive authority, even political authority
According to McIntyre, the commandment “Thou shalt not steal” guarantees this.
What is the individual right to private property?
Fundamentalists are at the opposite pole of this religious group
What is: Modernists
FDR’s reference to “money changers” evokes this New Testament story.
What is Jesus cleansing the temple?
Evangelicals maintain urgency about the second coming while avoiding this step that could discredit them.
What is setting a specific date for Christ’s return?
McIntyre describes this biblical figure as a “real capitalist.”
Who is Moses
Sutton's evangelicals might be literalists, but they also read the Bible in this interpretative mode?
What is: dramaturgical, typological.
FDR references the Exodus story through this reference--which serves to do what?
"We are stricken by no plague of locusts." It suggests the Great Depression was not an unavoidable "act of God" or natural disaster, but a man-made failure, that could and can be restored through collective human action.
Premillennialists interpret Daniel’s “iron and clay” as this political combination in the end times.
What is a mix of authoritarian rule and democracy?
McIntyre thinks of the Bible as something that has this human quality ____
What is: speech.
For fundamentalists in the early 20th century, traditional morality of the bible and the question of modern economic policy is ___.
What is: one