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 Info | Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2007. |
| Description | x, 194 pages ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Table 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 note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-182) and index. |
| LCCN | 2007010923 |
| ISBN | 9780742552241 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0742552241 (cloth : alk. paper) |