Christian Nationalism represents a contemporary movement that fuses American national identity with particular expressions of Christian faith, asserting that the United States was founded as a Christian nation and should return to explicitly Christian governance and cultural dominance. This movement goes beyond individual Christian participation in public life to advocate for institutional Christian supremacy, often through appeals to a mythologized understanding of American founding and history. Christian Nationalism provides the organizational and ideological framework for much of
MAGA Christianism and
Dominative Christianism, offering a political program for implementing theological mutations in public policy. Unlike authentic Christian engagement with public life that maintains critical distance from state power, Christian Nationalism seeks to capture and wield government authority for explicitly religious purposes, often justifying this agenda through
Providential Identitarianism that claims divine election for American Christians.