January 18, 2008

Books

Evangelicals & Politics

Wayward Christian Soldiers Freeing the Gospel from Political CaptivityCharles MarshOxford University Press, $25, 256 pp.

Mark Noll

Charles Marsh’s book joins the lengthening list of volumes rushed into print by what might be called an elite-media panic over the power of the Christian Right. The overwhelming support of Evangelicals for George W. Bush in the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections, compounded by the misadventures of the Iraq war, has generated a spate of bold and scary titles: American Theocr (...)


 

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