When did Jesus become Republican?: rescuing our country and our values from the right : strategies for a post-Bush America

Introduction: Are all true believers really conservative?

Part I. How We Got the Way We Are:

1. The Puritan paradigm

2. Revivalism and the privatizing of American religion

3. Fundamentalism, its decline, and the rise of the religious right

4. The conservative Jesus

Part II. Why It's Unlikely to Get Better Soon:

5. American theological education since World War II

6. Impact of German philosophy and theology on the pews: the impotence of today's cutting-edge theologies

7. The impact of Americanization

8. Stubborn exceptions to the trends and what they might teach us

Part III. It Will Take a Conservative Theology and a New Liberal Coalition to Recover a Politically Liberal Jesus:

9. Resources in classical Christianity

10. What Catholics and Protestants will need to do to keep Jesus and his gospel from becoming conservative: some new (old) alternatives

Conclusion: Where do we go from here?