New Prime Minister of Australia an Evangelical Christian

[Jerome]

New York Times plays up Liberal Party head as 'new kind' Evangelical Prime Minister:

Prime Minister Scott Morrison of Australia with his wife, Jenny, and daughters after being sworn in on Friday. Mr. Morrison speaks openly about his evangelical faith.

nytimes.com/2018/08/27/world/australia/scott-morrison-evangelical-prime-minister.html

Morrison and his faith represent a break with tradition in Australia, where politics has long been ardently secular. He is the first prime minister to come from one of the country’s growing evangelical Christian movement

Morrison cuts a markedly different figure than evangelical Christian politicians in the United States....Morrison has often chosen pragmatism (or political calculation) over fundamentalism. For instance, when the vote came to legalize same-sex marriage in Australia...he abstained. "He won’t run on a campaign as being a cultural warrior or a socially conservative reformer," said Jill Sheppard, a lecturer on politics at Australian National University."

 

[Matt Black]

Kevin Rudd?

Kevin Rudd - Wikipedia

 

[Gold Dragon]

Faith of the last few Aussie PMs

Morrison: raised uniting church, assemblies of god while PM
Turnbull: raised presbyterian, anglican wedding, catholic while PM
Abbott: catholic (Jesuit)
Rudd: raised catholic, married anglican, non-denominational while PM
Gillard: raised baptist, atheist while PM
Howard: raised methodist, sydney anglican while PM

I would consider Morison, Howard and possibly Rudd to be evangelical Christians.

The Sydney Anglican diocese is ardently conservative evangelical as opposed to the Anglican church in most of the rest of Australia which is more high church (catholic-lite) liberal Anglican.

Are Sydney Anglicans actually Anglicans? – Opinion – ABC Religion & Ethics (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

I attend a sydney anglican church and most of the church is much more conservative than me on theological and social issues. They are also more conservative than my previous baptist church which is more liberal than I am. I still consider myself baptist and don't really identify as anglican even though I have attended sydney anglican churches for the last decade. I also identify more as a conservative evangelical than a liberal evangelical although I acknowledge I frequently straddle both camps.

 

[Matt Black]

Ah yes, the Jensen brothers...

 

[Jerome]

theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/29/the-prosperity-doctrine-and-neoliberal-jesusing-scott-morrison-style

"He is a neoliberal....Morrison spoke of his 'personal faith in Jesus Christ' in his 2008 maiden speech, in which he also thanked pastors Brian Houston and Leigh Cameron of what has been described as a 'money machine', the Hillsong Church, for their 'great assistance' to him. Citing Houston as 'a mentor', Morrison is a proud and public worshipper at the Horizon Church, which, like Hillsong, is Pentecostal, and similarly an 'American-style mega-church...where the gospel of prosperity is preached'"

 

[777]

don't know squat about the Horizon Church but don't like mega-churches and don't like the gospel of prosperity. Ugh.

But, this guy's church aside, yet another new PM for Australia? They are going through them fast, Turnbull backed off climate change but that didn't help him last. I kind of like this system in a way, some PMs don't last their first term, but then there's no such concept as a lame duck for them. Bet Trump is happy to see Turnbull go, this new guy has a lump of coal for him.