When Did Jesus Become Republican? Rescuing Our Country and Our Values from the Right-- Strategies for a Post-Bush America

by Ellingsen, Mark

• ISBN13: 9780742552241
• ISBN10: 0742552241
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-08-24
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Ellingsen critically examines how modern American politics relate to Jesus' vision of love and peace, questioning how Republican policies fit with the Christian values they espouse. He shows how people, regardless of political party, can embrace true Christian essentials in a way that authentically appeals not only to liberals but mainstream and even conservative Christians.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction: Are All True Believers Really Conservative?	p. 1
How We Got the Way We Are
The Puritan Paradigm	p. 11
Revivalism and the Privatizing of American Religion	p. 21
Fundamentalism, Its Decline, and the Rise of the Religious Right	p. 35
The Conservative Jesus	p. 57
Why It's Unlikely to Get Better Soon
American Theological Education since World War II	p. 71
Impact of German Philosophy and Theology on the Pews: The Impotence of Today's Cutting-Edge Theologies	p. 81
The Impact of Americanization	p. 91
Stubborn Exceptions to the Trends and What They Might Teach Us	p. 103
It Will Take a Conservative Theology and a New Liberal Coalition to Recover a Politically Liberal Jesus
Resources in Classical Christianity	p. 115
What Catholics and Protestants Will Need to Do to Keep Jesus and His Gospel from Becoming Conservative: Some New (Old) Alternatives	p. 137
Conclusion: Where Do We Go from Here?	p. 147
Notes	p. 155
Index	p. 183
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