I’ve been fascinated and bewildered as I’ve been thinking about revivalism lately. Check out this collection of photos of an Oral Roberts healing service and try making sense of what’s going on. The whole phenomenon of the big tent revival seems to me to hold some profound keys to the nature of American identity. Charles [...]
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The Story of a Stuttering, Afflicted Boy Raised Up to Be a Deliverer of Humanity
Posted in Walt Whitman, america, tagged america, healing, oral roberts, revival, whitman on July 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Andrew Bacevich on Some Recent Uses of “A Shining City on a Hill”
Posted in america, political theology, tagged american exceptionalism, bacevich, winthrop, palin, politics, election, vice president debates on October 12, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Andrew Bacevich is one of the few voices in the American political scene today that has anything worthwhile to say. In the words of a friend of mine, “He’s not a moron.” I can’t wait to begin reading his new book, The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism, which has been on backorder [...]
Arthur McGill on Boring Heavens
Posted in america, arthur mcgill, atonement on May 10, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I just finished reading a pretty fantastic book by Arthur McGill called Life and Death: An American Theology. He is one of those authors that have a way of packing the entire content of their message into every sentence they write. So, if you care to read this book, be ready to be [...]
Speaking of Flannery
Posted in Luther, america, fiction, grace, herman melville on April 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Arthur McGill, in a phenomenal book entitled Life and Death: An American Theology, makes the argument that the ethos of America at large is marked by a fatal need to extinguish all visible signs of death from its existence. This, for him, is motivated by an ultimate fear of death, wherein one believes it [...]
Thoughts On the Development of the Modern American Religious Self
Posted in america, emerson, evangelicalism on March 23, 2007 | 8 Comments »
At the risk of glaring selectivity, I must nevertheless point out three predominant features of the American mythos: 1) Liberty, by which we mean self-determination, freedom from the external demands of others; 2) Prosperity, by which we mean the possession of expendable wealth; and 3) Security, by which we mean the extermination of all threats [...]
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