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Article: Sinners in the Hands of a Flexible God.("Jesus in American - a History: Personal Savior, Cultural Hero, National Obsession")(Book Review)
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- First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
- Article date:
- June 1, 2004
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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 historical patterns and particularities," and in his four hundred pages of text covering four ...
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... ... We've been occupied with Jesus for more than 400 years," says ... Fox, author of a new book, "Jesus in America: Personal Savior, Cultural Hero, National Obsession ... The many incarnations of Jesus remain with us today, whether ...
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