Joel Looper offers his fellow evangelicals a theological rationale for resisting Christian nationalism. I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you in the grace of Ch
“Politicized evangelicals believe themselves to be fighting secularization, but Joel Looper argues that his fellow evangelicals are in fact making it worse: the church is secularizing itself by replacing the Gospel of Jesus Christ with cultural conservatism, and the church with the nation. No wonder people are walking away from the church! Looper calls those who have accepted Donald Trump as their personal lord and savior to return to the Jesus of the Bible.”
—William T. Cavanaugh, DePaul University, author of Migrations of the Holy: God, State, and the Political Meaning of the Church
“In Another Gospel, Joel Looper provides a formidable and timely critique of the contemporary religious right based in conservative Christian theology. Looper’s book is for those wrestling with the question of how American evangelicalism lost its way politically—those searching for a theological answer to white Christian nationalism and the anti-democratic ideology that has captured so many on the religious right.”
—Scott M. Coley, Mount St. Mary’s University, author of Ministers of Propaganda: Truth, Power, and the Ideology of the Religious Right
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Joel Looper teaches at Baylor University and serves as coordinator for Shalom Mission Communities, a network of international Christian communities. He is also the author of Bonhoeffer’s America: A Land without Reformation.
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Table of Contents
Preface
1. A Gospel People?
2. Baptizing the National Body
3. The Scandal of the Evangelical Heart
4. Putin’s Christian Nationalism
5. A Gospel Politics
6. Trump and the Gospel of America
Bibliography
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