Sinners in the Hands of a Flexible God.("Jesus in American - a History: Personal Savior, Cultural Hero, National Obsession")(Book Review)

From: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and PublicLife | Date: June 1, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

JESUS IN AMERICA--A HISTORY: PERSONAL SAVIOR, CULTURAL HERO, NATIONAL OBSESSION. By RICHARD WIGHTMAN FOX. Harper-SanFrancisco. 488pp. $27.95.

THE AMERICA OF the title is the United States, from colonial times to the present. The Jesus of the title is all the things the subtitle says and more. To Jesus' question "Who do you say that I am?" Americans have offered seemingly numberless and often contradictory replies. In Jesus in America, Richard Wightman Fox undertakes to "document the diversity"--or at least "a fair sample" thereof--while "throwing some light on basic ...

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