When did Jesus become Republican? : rescuing our country and our values from the right : strategies for a post-Bush America / Mark Ellingsen.

Author/creator Ellingsen, Mark, 1949-
Format Book
Publication InfoLanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2007.
Descriptionx, 194 pages ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects

Contents Introduction: Are all true believers really conservative? -- Part I. How We Got the Way We Are: -- 1. The Puritan paradigm -- 2. Revivalism and the privatizing of American religion -- 3. Fundamentalism, its decline, and the rise of the religious right -- 4. The conservative Jesus -- Part II. Why It's Unlikely to Get Better Soon: -- 5. American theological education since World War II -- 6. Impact of German philosophy and theology on the pews: the impotence of today's cutting-edge theologies -- 7. The impact of Americanization -- 8. Stubborn exceptions to the trends and what they might teach us -- Part III. It Will Take a Conservative Theology and a New Liberal Coalition to Recover a Politically Liberal Jesus: -- 9. Resources in classical Christianity -- 10. What Catholics and Protestants will need to do to keep Jesus and his gospel from becoming conservative: some new (old) alternatives -- Conclusion: Where do we go from here?
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 155-182) and index.
LCCN 2007010923
ISBN9780742552241 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0742552241 (cloth : alk. paper)