Trump & the MAGA Movement as Antichrist

About this book

Every day in America, we debate events, motives, and politics, yet often lack the imagination to perceive and name what often lurks within: evil.Matthew Fox, one of our nation's most evocative theologians, argues that Christianity's great symbols, stories, and works of sacred art were never meant merely to describe evil. They were meant to train us -- to see how evil disguises itself, seduces, and leaves chaos in its wake.Trump and the MAGA Movement as Antichrist begins with Fox's startling encounter inside a cathedral at Orvieto, Italy, where Luca Signorelli's monumental fresco "The Preaching and Deeds of the Antichrist" stopped him in his tracks. Without seeing the title, his first instinct was, "It feels like Donald Trump." That moment launches an expressive exploration of how evil captivates ordinary people, glorifies power, and turns communities against themselves. Drawing on Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Thomas Aquinas, Meister Eckhart, and Hildegard of Bingen, Fox reveals the Antichrist as a timeless, powerful archetype for understanding how evil behaves.Illustrated with color reproductions of masterpieces by Signorelli, Fra Angelico, and Hildegard of Bingen, the book also presents Christ as the opposing archetype of compassion, truth, shared dignity, creativity, and democracy. This is a prophetic guide to discerning evil and embracing the light in our own time.This new Lake Drive Books edition has been revised and updated from an earlier independently published edition.