Jesus Made in America: A Cultural History from the Puritans to "The Passion of the Christ" - Paperback

by Stephen J. Nichols (Author)

Stephen Nichols traces the changing face of Jesus throughout the successive cultural eras in American history. Beginning with the Puritans and ending with the Religious Right, he demonstrates the influence of popular culture upon American Christian views of Jesus at every stage along the way.

Author Biography

Stephen J. Nichols (Ph.D., Westminster Theological Seminary) is Research Professor of Christianity and Culture at Lancaster Bible College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He is the coeditor of The Legacy of Jonathan Edwards: American Religion and the Evangelical Tradition and the author of many books, including The Reformation: How a Monk and a Mallet Changed the World and For Us and for Our Salvation: The Doctrine of Christ in the Early Church. He chairs the American Christianity section of the Evangelical Theological Society.