Charles Marsh is Professor of Religion and Director of the Project on Lived Theology at the University of Virginia. His books include Reclaiming Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Last Days, God's Long Summer, which won the 1998 Grawemeyer Award in Religion, and most recently, The Beloved Community: How Faith Shapes Social Justice, from the Civil Rights Movement to Today. A graduate of Harvard Divinity School, he has written for The New York Times, Books and Culture, Modern Theology, and numerous other publications.

• Introduction: On Being a Christian after Bush ; 1. The Evangelical Moment ; 2. The God We Trust ; 3. The Piety of Cosmic Entitlement ; 4. Whatever Happened to the Peculiar People? ; 5. Theology Matters: Including a Brief History of Modern Christianity in Which the Readers Learn Why the Christian Right are the Theological Liberals ; 6. Keepers of the Mystery: The Christian Tradition Speaks (Carefully) ; 7. Learning to Be Quiet in a Noisy Nation (and a Nation of Noisy Believers) ; 8. Passing the International Test: The Call of Global Christianity ; 9. Faith as Making Space for God's Truth in the World ; Bibliography ; Index

There have been several books published recently analyzing the current trend in American politics toward the right and the hijacking of the political sphere by fundamentalist Christioans there... Charles Marsh's book scores over these other books in... major repects.

Charles Marsh is Professor of Religion and Director of the Project on Lived Theology at the University of Virginia. His books include Reclaiming Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Last Days, God's Long Summer, which won the 1998 Grawemeyer Award in Religion, and most recently, The Beloved Community: How Faith Shapes Social Justice, from the Civil Rights Movement to Today. A graduate of Harvard Divinity School, he has written for The New York Times, Books and Culture, Modern Theology, and numerous other publications.

• Introduction: On Being a Christian after Bush ; 1. The Evangelical Moment ; 2. The God We Trust ; 3. The Piety of Cosmic Entitlement ; 4. Whatever Happened to the Peculiar People? ; 5. Theology Matters: Including a Brief History of Modern Christianity in Which the Readers Learn Why the Christian Right are the Theological Liberals ; 6. Keepers of the Mystery: The Christian Tradition Speaks (Carefully) ; 7. Learning to Be Quiet in a Noisy Nation (and a Nation of Noisy Believers) ; 8. Passing the International Test: The Call of Global Christianity ; 9. Faith as Making Space for God's Truth in the World ; Bibliography ; Index

There have been several books published recently analyzing the current trend in American politics toward the right and the hijacking of the political sphere by fundamentalist Christioans there... Charles Marsh's book scores over these other books in... major repects.

Charles Marsh is Professor of Religion and Director of the Project on Lived Theology at the University of Virginia. His books include Reclaiming Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Last Days, God's Long Summer, which won the 1998 Grawemeyer Award in Religion, and most recently, The Beloved Community: How Faith Shapes Social Justice, from the Civil Rights Movement to Today. A graduate of Harvard Divinity School, he has written for The New York Times, Books and Culture, Modern Theology, and numerous other publications.

• Introduction: On Being a Christian after Bush ; 1. The Evangelical Moment ; 2. The God We Trust ; 3. The Piety of Cosmic Entitlement ; 4. Whatever Happened to the Peculiar People? ; 5. Theology Matters: Including a Brief History of Modern Christianity in Which the Readers Learn Why the Christian Right are the Theological Liberals ; 6. Keepers of the Mystery: The Christian Tradition Speaks (Carefully) ; 7. Learning to Be Quiet in a Noisy Nation (and a Nation of Noisy Believers) ; 8. Passing the International Test: The Call of Global Christianity ; 9. Faith as Making Space for God's Truth in the World ; Bibliography ; Index

There have been several books published recently analyzing the current trend in American politics toward the right and the hijacking of the political sphere by fundamentalist Christioans there... Charles Marsh's book scores over these other books in... major repects.