Robert Barclay and The Donald

Alastair McIntosh reflects on a binary worldview

by Alastair McIntosh 5th May 2017

Robert Barclay’s An Apology for the True Christian Divinity (1676) is a central text in the history of Quakerism, as Mark Frankel highlighted in a recent ‘Thought for the Week’ (3 March). Here I want to examine the light that Barclay’s text can shed on Donald Trump’s evangelical power base.