My Fundamentalist Education : A Memoir of a Divine Girlhood

by Rosen, Christine

• ISBN13: 9781586482589
• ISBN10: 1586482580
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-12-26
• Publisher: Perseus Books Group

Summary

When Christine Rosen started kindergarten, her ABCs included the Apocalypse, the Bible, and Christ. At Keswick Christian School "the Bible was our textbook," God the guide, and after entering the school gates, nothing was ever quite the same again. Christine learned creation science, dreamed of becoming a missionary to exotic countries, worried about the souls of Jews and Mormons, and experienced unusual methods of sex education. With the threat of nuclear annihilation at the hands of atheistic Russians looming, she also frequently prayed for rapture.At home, Florida life seemed happily to confirm several literal truths: the story of Moses, with its plagues that afflicted the Egyptians from lice, to rivers of stinking dead fish, to hordes of frogs might have been describing Christine's back yard.My Fundamentalist Educationis a brilliant, affectionate, child's-eye journey to Rosen's home, school and small town. Set in a time and place when the Living Bible outsoldThe Joy of Sex, during a girlhood lived as the Lord intended, among the tropical flora and fauna of Florida, its televangelists, irascible elderly, and itinerant preachers, Christine Rosen and her sister, Cathy, uncover the not always godly but surely divine secrets of a Hallelujah-ya sisterhood.

Author Biography

Christine Rosen is the author of Preaching Eugenics: Religious Leaders and the American Eugenics Movement and a fellow of the Ethics & Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C. She has a Ph.D. in History from Emory University, and her opinion pieces and essays have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, National Review, Weekly Standard, Commentary, New England Journal of Medicine, and other publications. She is also a frequent contributor to radio and television shows. She lives in Washington, D.C. and is married to Jeffrey Rosen.

Table of Contents

Sunshine State	1	(15)
Darlings of Divine Providence	16	(15)
Sword of the Spirit	31	(21)
Jesus Loves Me This I Know	52	(12)
Amateur Messiahs	64	(29)
Heresies	93	(16)
Here Comes the Son	109	(24)
Dribbling for Jesus	133	(13)
Jehovah Jireh	146	(20)
Full Immersion	166	(12)
Harlots and Menstealers	178	(28)
Virtue and Vice	206	(15)
The Hereafter	221	(9)
Acknowledgments	230