Tim LaHaye
Theologian, author of the Left Behind series, and co-founder of the Council for National Policy. Built the intellectual framework for Christian nationalist politics.
View in the interactive map →Tim LaHaye operated on two tracks simultaneously. Publicly, his Left Behind novels (co-written with Jerry Jenkins) sold 65+ million copies and embedded a specific end-times theology — premillennial dispensationalism — into evangelical mass culture. This theology positioned America as a uniquely blessed nation in God's plan, set enemies as literal servants of the Antichrist, and made geopolitical aggression feel spiritually required. Privately, LaHaye co-founded the Council for National Policy (1981) — a secretive coalition of right-wing donors, politicians, and religious leaders that coordinated strategy away from public view. LaHaye's wife Beverly ran Concerned Women for America, the largest women's organization in America built explicitly to counter feminism.
Documented themes
Connections from Tim LaHaye
- founded → Council for National Policy (1981) — LaHaye co-founded the CNP to create a private coordination infrastructure for the Christian right.
- promoted → Concerned Women for America (1981) — Tim LaHaye's co-founding of the Council for National Policy in 1981 directly linked Beverly's grassroots CWA to the elite strategic coordination infrastructure of the Religious Right. This meant CWA's lobbying priorities were shaped by the same donor class and political strategists who directed the broader conservative movement — making CWA simultaneously a genuine grassroots organization and an instrument of elite strategy coordinated through the CNP.
Sources
- Jesus and John Wayne — Kristin Kobes Du Mez (2020), pp. 122-140