Intellectual Authority and Its Changing Infrastructures in Australian and United States Christianity, 1960s–2010s

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Intellectual Authority and Its Changing Infrastructures in Australian and United States Christianity, 1960s-2010sThe seismic events of 2020a global pandemic with differing levels of trust in public health authorities, the prominence of conspiracy theories, and fresh attention to the ongoing impact of systemic and individual racismonce more made it clear the significance of the way Christians relate to issues of knowledge, expertise and authority in the public sphere.Yet the events of 2020 did not come from nowhere.US-Australian evangelical Christian responses to shifting cultural and political landscapes, racial justice, authority of science, and decolonisation have entangled histories.In July 2021 we hosted a hybrid symposium to explore the longer historical crises that sit behind the present picture.We examined these themes and histories from a variety of disciplines, including history, theology, sociology, philosophy, religious studies, and others.The symposium was supported via a generous grant from the Religious History Association, and assistance from the Australian Catholic University (Brisbane) and Deakin University (Geelong).While we intended to meet in-person in Brisbane, yet another wave of COVID-lockdowns across New South Wales and Victoria meant this was not possible.Coincidentally, initial planning for the symposium marked 25 years since the publication of Mark Noll's landmark Scandal of the Evangelical Mind (Eerdmans, 1994) which surveyed the historical roots of what Noll saw as the lamentable state of evangelical engagement and involvement with mainstream knowledge production enterprises in the US.More recently, Molly Worthen's Apostles of Reason: The Crisis of Authority in American Evangelicalism (Oxford, 2014) provided a nuanced account of the many ways in which US evangelicals since the 1960s sought to respond to the "crisis" of epistemic authority in the US.She described how many US evangelicals had developed an alternative intellectual infrastructure of their own, generating a distinctly evangelical expert whose authority was recognised and deployed in an evangelical mediascape and educational network.

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