David Brannan PhD Thesis - University of St Andrews

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UNIVERSITY OF ST. ANDREWS VIOLENCE, TERRORISM AND THE ROLE OF THEOLOGY: REPENTANT AND REBELLIOUS CHRISTIAN IDENTITY A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF ST MARYS COLLEGE IN CANDIDACY FOR THE DEGREE OF A PHD BY DAVID BRANNAN ST. ANDREWS, SCOTLAND SEPTEMBER 2006
Acknowledgements and Dedication While I have done the work and accept the mistakes in this dissertation as purely my own—anything good that came from this has been because of many other people who have helped me along the way. Bruce Hoffman is the greatest terrorism specialist in the world, but more than that he has been my friend and mentor along the way. I hope you will allow me to continue following along behind you learning and growing by watching and listening to you. Anders Strindberg is a hard headed Swede without whom I could not have had nearly as many fun arguments about my topic. I sure hope we have many more arguments in the future. Philip Esler guided me in this dissertation through the attacks of 9/11, me going to serve in Iraq and after I was wounded, he encouraged me to return to finish even though I didn’t really want to. He is a brilliant academic and man of integrity. Mario Aguilar took over my supervision at the end of this project when he really had no time for yet another postgraduate student to lead through the difficult dissertation submission process. He did it anyway and he did it with style and grace—much needed grace I might add. My Grandfather, USAF Chief Master Sergeant, Carl W. Schafer (ret.) never went to college. Despite that he realized it was important for me and he helped me get this done. I really appreciate it a lot. Three beautiful and strong women went to unbelievable lengths to help me do this PhD. My daughters Adrian and Elizabeth had to put up with a lot of silly talk for years about Identity theology. They have always been interested in my theological as well as political discussions and I have appreciated their insight and love along the way. My wife Alison is a star. As you can see, lots of people had to help me along in this process—but without Alison it would not have happened, period. Even though it made me mad when you noticed my typos and grammar issues, I appreciated you pointing them out. And when I wanted to, “just stop the madness” 10,000 different times—you had the guts, and coffee to keep me going till I got it done. I’m still not going to dedicate it to you though—because I want to dedicate a proper book to you not some dry dissertation. I love you, thanks, and we are sure glad that’s over aren’t we?
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Page 5 and 6: DECLARATIONS I, David W. Brannan, I
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the Law as well as the Millennium.
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54 If you would like to send a symp
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56 Juergensmeyer’s categories of
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theology with political violence. T
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60 Summary Statement of Belief We m
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62 In particular, he [Pierce] rejec
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64 These most closely approximate t
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where Kaplan only sought to explain
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evidence that many of the founders
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70 Walter’s reliance on Dan Gayma
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Mormonism together under the headin
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publication discussed above. It is
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76 Beginnings rather than conclusio
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78 Nations. This work further devel
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CHAPTER 3 ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK AND
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82 In the United States of America,
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subjects has led, in part, to the c
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identify “terrorism” specifical
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88 “Terrorism” is clearly a pro
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frameworks consist of: a) the model
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92 Political frameworks The second
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spectrum of theologies, beliefs and
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96 Terrorism Studies explanation fo
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98 It is common practice among rese
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100 information supplied from these
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impossible to meet with the researc
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104 The Terrorism Studies community
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106 The presuppositional starting p
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108 findings will be necessarily sl
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110 some major distinctions that se
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112 Prime examples of the individua
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114 To this point, we are talking a
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116 types and individual groups fro
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118 to a large extent on the abilit
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appropriately categorize the given
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122 c. De-categorization - dissolvi
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124 method and analytical framework
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126 The break up of the Klan into s
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128 People: Yesterday, Today and Fo
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130 doctrines derived from a study
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132 Certainly as early as 1600s, 33
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134 To the rather general idea that
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136 � Millenarian Visions - ‘sp
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138 white Japanese, are apparently
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140 Measurement systems, mathematic
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142 Hine moved away from the Wilson
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as Christian—unpopular among acad
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146 because of the relation of Iden
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148 progression suggesting that unl
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150 the promises made to Abraham co
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152 the movement’s leaders and wr
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154 movement, both British-Israelis
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156 the tumultuous time before, dur
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CHAPTER 5 IDENTITY THEOLOGY: WHAT T
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160 determine further theological a
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162 careful consideration of indivi
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164 The Church of Israel in Schell
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166 Iceland Benjamin Germany Judah
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168 Figure 2: This is a portion of
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170 That’s not the issue, I don
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172 Photo 1: Richard Butler gives a
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174 In contrast to Butler’s under
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176 soul and are thus are not in ne
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178 while not immediately aligning
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180 proclaims on its web site that,
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movement the doctrines below are se
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Conclusions 184 The very basic tene
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186 believe you are the actual line
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CHAPTER 6 CHRISTIAN IDENTITY: WITH
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190 traditional Christian theology
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192 while Ted Weiland has written i
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194 Gayman’s grandfather. 515 Ind
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196 issue of mistaken identity must
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198 Gayman views it, the white race
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200 different than other mainline P
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202 Therefore you are witnesses aga
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exegesis of the Romans 13 passage d
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206 The Church of Israel, Church of
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208 faith-based motivations of Gaym
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210 the group to quickly develop ad
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theological distinctives have broad
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214 This position is very different
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216 How can people claiming to view
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make these needed distinctions 598
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220 Some Identity theologians use t
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222 alone. 611 Clearly, this is a p
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224 A non-seed Identity theologian
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226 theology. 627 Those both from w
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228 liners are integrating psycholo
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230 white race which settled the No
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232 same. 644 These reasons highlig
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234 considered throughout the seed-
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236 preclude the theologically moti
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238 the leadership practices within
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240 provoke interest in what other
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242 and inaccurate, insights into t
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244 Identity’s development, it wi
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246 to Robb’s group being describ
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248 with law enforcement. 691 The m
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250 further than most in making cle
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252 that the Church specifically ho
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254 afraid that the government has
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256 is evidenced in who is perceive
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258 Locke, Samuel Rutherford, Samue
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260 which has been affixed by the m
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262 future theocratic state. When P
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264 surrounding areas from their cu
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266 This leaves Weiland and perhaps
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268 society whose very founding doc
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270 themselves to this very thing.
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272 Church of Israel follows the pr
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274 citizenship, is it asking too m
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276 Genesis exegesis is potentially
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278 The distinctions between groups
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280 This research has shown that gr
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282 The analysis of secondary liter
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284 is truly Christian—the moveme
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286 actually repentant in their soc
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288 their fear, hatred as well as s
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290 6. The relationship between soc
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292 By utilizing one or more of the
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social action and theology concerne
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296 ____ Do All Races Share in Salv
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Journals 298 Smith, Gerald, L. K.
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300 Barth, Fredrik (ed.), Ethnic Gr
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302 Crenshaw, Martha Terrorism, Leg
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304 Goldberg, Bernard Bias, Washing
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306 Kasch, Wilhelm, F “Terror: Be
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308 Miller, N. & Brewer, M. B. (eds
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310 Robinson, Peter (ed.) Social gr
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312 Vanderbreggen, Cornelius Just B
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Schiller, Mayer, July 2001, Monsey,
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316 Kaplan, Jeffery “The Context
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Olsen, Ted “Think Jesus Is the On
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320 Assembly’s of God, http://www
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322 Jubilee Newspaper, http://www.j
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