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Who Is a True Christian?: Contesting Religious Identity in American Culture - Hardcover

Congdon, David W.

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9781009428996: Who Is a True Christian?: Contesting Religious Identity in American Culture
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ISBN 10: 1009428993 ISBN 13: 9781009428996
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2024

Synopsis

Finalist for the 26th Annual Susanne M. Glasscock Book Prize<br>
"Written in the grand tradition of Harvey Cox, Peter Berger, and Charles Taylor, this capacious and contentious book promises to enliven and instruct a generation's debates about the destiny of the Christian faith in the United States and beyond." —David A. Hollinger<br>
 
"No true Christian could vote for Donald Trump."<br>
"Real Christians are pro-life."<br>
"You can't be a Christian and support gay marriage."<br>
Assertive statements like these not only reflect growing religious polarization but also express the anxiety over religious identity that pervades modern American Christianity. To address this disquiet, conservative Christians have sought security and stability: whether by retrieving &quot;historic Christian&quot; doctrines, reconceptualizing their faith as a distinct culture, or reinforcing a political vision of what it means to be a follower of God in a corrupt world. The result is a concerted effort to "Make Christianity Great Again," a religious project predating the corresponding political effort to "Make America Great Again."
<br>Part intellectual history, part nuanced argument for change, this timely book explores why the question of what defines Christianity has become, over the last century, so damagingly vexatious&mdash;and how believers might conceive of it differently in the future.

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About the Author

David W. Congdon is a Senior Editor at the University Press of Kansas and Lecturer at the University of Kansas. He is the author of several books, including The Mission of Demythologizing: Rudolf Bultmann's Dialectical Theology (2015, which won the Rudolf Bultmann Prize in Hermeneutics from the Philipps University of Marburg), and the editor of Varieties of Christian Universalism: Exploring Four Views (2023).

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2024
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1009428993
ISBN 13 
9781009428996
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
404
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