Sunday, August 24, 2014

'Our Great Big American God': a wry history of America's very patriotic Deity

From The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette-

Matthew Paul Turner’s “Our Great Big American God: A Short History of Our Ever-Growing Deity” attempts to tell the story of how Americans’ perceptions of God have changed over the course of American history.

Mr. Turner briefly traces the last 400 years of American history through the perspective of Christianity and its leaders. Many Christians believe that this is a history that has been molded and changed by God, but Mr. Turner attempts to answer a big question: “Has America changed God?”


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http://www.post-gazette.com/ae/books/2014/08/24/Matthew-Paul-Turner-offers-a-wry-history-of-America-s-very-patriotic-Deity-Our-Great-Big-American-God/stories/201408240020#ixzz3BJ1QfniB

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