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Republican Jesus: How the Right Has Rewritten the Gospels - Softcover

Keddie, Tony

 
9780520385696: Republican Jesus: How the Right Has Rewritten the Gospels
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0520385691 ISBN 13: 9780520385696
Verlag: University of California Press, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

The complete guide to debunking right-wing misinterpretations of the Bible--from economics and immigration to gender and sexuality.

Jesus loves borders, guns, unborn babies, and economic prosperity and hates homosexuality, taxes, welfare, and universal healthcare--or so say many Republican politicians, pundits, and preachers. Through outrageous misreadings of the New Testament gospels that started almost a century ago, conservative influencers have conjured a version of Jesus that speaks to their fears, desires, and resentments.

In Republican Jesus, Tony Keddie explains not only where this right-wing Christ came from and what he stands for but also why this version of Jesus is a fraud. By restoring Republicans' cherry-picked gospel texts to their original literary and historical contexts, Keddie dismantles the biblical basis for Republican positions on hot-button issues like Big Government, taxation, abortion, immigration, and climate change. At the same time, he introduces readers to an ancient Jesus whose life experiences and ethics were totally unlike those of modern Americans, conservatives and liberals alike.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Tony Keddie is Associate Professor of Early Christian History and Literature at the University of British Columbia and author of Class and Power in Roman Palestine and Revelations of Ideology.

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"Written by a first-rate expert on the New Testament, Republican Jesus is a compelling and no-holds-barred tour de force: whatever proponents of the Christian right might claim, the Republican Jesus stands radically at odds with the Jesus of the Gospels. This is a must-read for our divisive and dangerous times."—Bart D. Ehrman, author of Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife

"Tony Keddie's indispensable book serves as the final word on Republican attempts to claim ownership over Jesus Christ, whose actual words and deeds stand as an eternal condemnation of nearly every Republican goal in the last half decade of American political life."—Reza Aslan, author of Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth

"Keddie makes a convincing case that the leaders of the Christian Right, and especially Donald Trump's court evangelicals, have often allowed politics to shape their reading of the Bible and not the other way around."—John Fea, author of Believe Me: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump

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Verlag
University of California Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2021
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0520385691
ISBN 13 
9780520385696
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Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
376
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