Stealing Jesus: How Fundamentalism Betrays Christianity Paperback - 1998
by Bruce Bawer
One of "Publishers Weekly's" Best Books of the Year in 1997, this work presents a passionately outspoken, cogently reasoned indictment of the fundamentalist right's claim to be the only legitimate voice of Christianity today.
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SPRING 1996, NEW YORK CITY. I'm standing on a moderately crowded subway car reading a paperback when I look up to see a man about my age-thirty-nine-who is standing a few feet away and staring at me with disconcerting intensity.
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From the author of the widely acclaimed A Place at the Table, this is a major work, passionately outspoken and cogently reasoned, that exposes the great danger posed to Christianity today by fundamentalism.
The time is past, says Bruce Bawer, when denominational names and other traditional labels provided an accurate reflection of Christian America's religious beliefs and practices. The meaningful distinction today is not between Protestant and Catholic, or Baptist and Episcopalian, but rather between "legalistic" and "nonlegalistic" religion, between the Church of Law and the Church of Love. On one side is the fundamentalist right, which draws a sharp distinction between "saved" and "unsaved" and worships a God of wrath and judgment; on the other are more mainstream Christians who view all humankind as children of a loving God who calls them to break down barriers of hate, prejudice, and distrust. Pointing out that the supposedly "traditional" beliefs of American fundamentalism--about which most mainstream Christians, clergy included, know shockingly little--are in fact of relatively recent origin, are distinctively American in many ways, and are dramatically at odds with the values that Jesus actually spread, Bawer fascinatingly demonstrates the way in which these beliefs have increasingly come to supplant genuinely fundamental Christian tenets in the American church and to become synonymous with Christianity in the minds of many people.
Stealing Jesus is the ringing testament of a man who is equally disturbed by the notion of an America without Christianity and the notion of an American Christianity without love and compassion.
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- Title Stealing Jesus: How Fundamentalism Betrays Christianity
- Author Bruce Bawer
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st Pbk. Ed
- Pages 352
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Crown Publishing Group (NY), New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date October 20, 1998
- ISBN 9780609802229 / 0609802224
- Weight 0.63 lbs (0.29 kg)
- Dimensions 8.04 x 5.24 x 0.77 in (20.42 x 13.31 x 1.96 cm)
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- Religious Orientation: Christian
- Theometrics: Secular
- Library of Congress subjects Christianity - Essence, genius, nature, United States - Church history
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97020111
- Dewey Decimal Code 277.308
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