Christians Against Christianity: How Right-Wing Evangelicals Are Destroying Our Nation and Our Faith by Hendricks, Obery M.

Christians Against Christianity: How Right-Wing Evangelicals Are Destroying Our Nation and Our Faith (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780807057407)

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Christians Against Christianity: How Right-Wing Evangelicals Are Destroying Our Nation and Our Faith by Hendricks, Obery M.

Christians Against Christianity: How Right-Wing Evangelicals Are Destroying Our Nation and Our Faith

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Christians Against Christianity: How Right-Wing Evangelicals Are Destroying Our Nation and Our Faith by Hendricks, Obery M.

Christians Against Christianity: How Right-Wing Evangelicals Are Destroying Our Nation and Our Faith

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Format: Hardcover
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A timely and galvanizing work that examines how right-wing evangelical Christians have veered from an admirable faith to a pernicious, destructive ideology.

Today's right-wing Evangelical Christianity stands as the very antithesis of the message of Jesus Christ. In his new book, Christians Against Christianity, best-selling author and religious scholar Obery M. Hendricks Jr. 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, Christians Against Christianity is 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. What Hendricks offers is a provocative diagnosis, 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. What they offer to America is anything but good news.

Author: Obery M. Hendricks
ISBN-10: 0807057401
ISBN-13: 9780807057407
Publisher: Beacon Press
Language: English
Published: 07/06/2021
Pages: 232
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 05/17/2021
Library Journal 06/01/2021 pg. 118
By Obery M. Hendricks
By Obery M. Hendricks
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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.

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