In God We Trust?
A Challenge to American Evangelicals
ABOUT THE BOOK
In God We Trust? deals with the americanization of Christianity, the future of the United States, and how American Christianity looks when viewed through the prism of historical and global Christianity. Here Patrick Nachtigall explains how American culture and myth have formed what we commonly think of as “Evangelical Christianity.”
The book suggests that three gods have always dominated American Christianity: Religious Freedom, Radical Individualism, and Materialism. A combination of historical amnesia and an obsession with apocalypticism has created an americanized form of Christianity that is exported all over the world. Caught between triumph and apocalypse, American Christianity veers from cultural arrogance to deep pessimism about the future of the country–a pattern that has existed for more than 400 years.
