In this repository, dominionism refers to political-theological ideas that treat major institutions or sectors of public life as territories Christians should govern, reclaim, or direct under explicitly Christian authority.
The concept describes a broad family of ideas about Christian rule, influence, or institutional control. In the current corpus it appears less as one tightly bounded doctrine than as a recurring label for movements, speakers, and strategies that reject religious neutrality and instead argue that Christians should take governing influence over public institutions.
This concept is broader than Seven Mountain Mandate. Seven Mountains is a strategic framework about specific institutional spheres; dominionism is the wider idea that Christians should exercise governing influence over society.
It overlaps with New Apostolic Reformation but is not identical to it. In the current corpus, NAR is a movement ecosystem, while dominionism is one recurring ideological orientation found within or near that ecosystem.
It also overlaps with Christian nationalism without replacing it. Christian nationalism is broader political rhetoric about the nation and Christian identity; dominionism is narrower language about rule, control, or institutional capture.
In this repository, dominionism appears mainly through reported or descriptive uses of the term around C. Peter Wagner, Lance Wallnau, CPAC faith-summit figures, Seven Mountains strategy, Katherine Stewart's explanation of anti-democratic religious-right politics, and newer education-focused reporting that treats school-board capture and the education mountain as one applied lane of the same broader logic. The Wagner pass adds a useful source-type distinction: Wagner's own sources reject theocracy as his stated goal, while reporting and scholarship treat his dominion and apostolic-network language as politically consequential. The newer Christian-nationalist network cluster extends that picture with William Wolfe's manifesto layer, a partial direct institutional description from Wagner University about shaping spheres of influence, and a provocation-focused Sean Feucht model. The corpus supports dominionism as a reusable explanatory term, but it still shows blurry edges where dominionism, Seven Mountains, and broader Christian nationalism merge.
wiki/summaries/c-peter-wagner-biography-nar-and-wallnau-source-cluster.md: distinguishes Wagner's self-described dominion boundary from outside-source interpretations of dominion, NAR, and Seven Mountains as public-power frameworkswiki/summaries/cpac-faith-summit-calls-for-unapologetic-christian-nationalism.md: uses dominionist language to describe some summit figures and connect Christian-nationalist rhetoric to broader rule-oriented politicswiki/summaries/christian-nationalist-network-and-provocation-cluster.md: adds William Wolfe's Christian-nationalist manifesto layer, a partial Wagner University self-description around spheres of influence, and a Sean Feucht provocation model that operationalizes dominion-oriented politics in public conflictwiki/summaries/seven-mountain-mandate-and-spiritual-warfare-politics.md: shows how dominion-oriented ideas appear through Seven Mountains and spiritual-warfare materialwiki/summaries/colorado-public-education-privatization-and-christian-nationalist-webinar-cluster.md: adds Katherine Stewart's explicit explanation of Seven Mountains dominionism and its anti-neutrality logicwiki/summaries/moms-for-liberty-parental-rights-and-dominionist-school-politics.md: adds a school-politics application layer where reporting explicitly frames public education as an education mountain targeted through parental-rights and school-board campaigns