Jesus - Made in America
My friend Matt Hall has posted a great review of the new Stephen Nichols book titled Jesus Made in America: A Cultural History from the Purtians to “The Passion of the Christ”. Below is a quote form the review.
One suspects that evangelicals of every stripe will find something that makes them squeamish. But then again, perhaps that’s just what Nichols is going for here. If American evangelicals are to recover any cultural capital and religious credibility, they will likely have to dispense with their penchant for sentimentalized caricatures of Jesus and mass-marketed religion.
