The Bible does not possess one unchanging historical meaning. Like law, politics and art, it is continually interpreted, selected and reshaped. Its special danger lies in the authority granted to those interpretations, which are often presented not as human judgments but as the unquestionable will of God.
Modern evangelicalism is not an ancient faith but a twentieth-century invention. Born in the anxiety of 1930s America, it fused personal emotion, mass media, and nationalism into a new religious identity. What began as revival became a system of control — replacing faith as awareness with belief as submission.