Obery M. Hendricks

Christians Against Christianity (eBook, ePUB)

How Right-Wing Evangelicals Are Destroying Our Nation and Our Faith

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A clarion call to stand up to the hypocrisy of the evangelical Right, as well as a guide for Christians to return their faith to the life-affirming message that Jesus brought and died for. "I can't think of a more timely book...[It] gets at the heart of what ails the Christian right and our nation today."-Michael Eric Dyson, author of Tears We Cannot Stop Best-selling author, activist, and religious scholar Obery M. Hendricks Jr. offers both a provocative diagnosis and an urgent warning that right-wing evangelicals' aspirations for Christian nationalist supremacy are a looming threat, not only to Christian decency but to democracy itself. He challenges right-wing evangelicals on the terrain of their own religious claims, exposing the falsehoods, contradictions, and misuses of the Bible that are embedded in their rabid homophobia, their poorly veiled racism and demonizing of immigrants and Muslims, and their ungodly alliance with big business against the interests of American workers. He scathingly indicts the religious leaders who helped facilitate the rise of the notoriously unchristian Donald Trump, likening them to the "court jesters" and hypocritical priestly sycophants of bygone eras who unquestioningly supported their sovereigns' every act, no matter how hateful or destructive to those they were supposed to serve. In the wake of the deadly insurrectionist attack on the US Capitol, this timely and galvanizing work examines how right-wing evangelical Christians have veered from an admirable faith to a pernicious, destructive ideology. What they offer to America is anything but good news.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Beacon Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780807057414
• Artikelnr.: 60338848

Autorenporträt

Obery M. Hendricks Jr. is a best-selling author, an activist, a religious scholar, a former theological seminary president, and an ordained elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. His books include The Politics of Jesus: Rediscovering the True Revolutionary Nature of Jesus' Teachings and How They Have Been Corrupted and The Universe Bends Toward Justice: Radical Reflections on the Bible, the Church, and the Body Politic. He currently teaches religion and African American studies at Columbia University and is also a Visiting Professor of Bible and Ethics at Union Theological Seminary in New York City.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
CHAPTER 1
We Have No King but Caesar: Genuflecting at Strange Altars
CHAPTER 2
You Will Know Them by Their Fruits: The Strange Fruit of Right-Wing
Evangelicalism
CHAPTER 3
Who Do You Say That I Am?: Right-Wing Evangelicals’ Dangerous
Misappropriation of Jesus
CHAPTER 4
A New Commandment I Give You: That You Love One Another: Right-Wing
Evangelicals, Homosexuality, and Marriage Equality
CHAPTER 5
I Have Other Sheep Not in This Fold: Right-Wing Evangelicals and the
Demonization of Immigrants and Muslims
CHAPTER 6
You Shall Not Add to the Word Which I Command You: Right-Wing Evangelicals,
Abortion, and the Meaning of “Pro-Life”
CHAPTER 7
Thou Shall Not Murder: The Unholy Alliance Between Right-Wing Evangelicals
and the NRA
CHAPTER 8
The Workman Is Worthy of His Keep: The Unholy Alliance of Big Business and
Right-Wing Evangelicals
EPILOGUE
A Spirit of Antichrist
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index