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The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism by Tim Alberta
blark's review against another edition
challenging
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
5.0
A must-read for anyone involved in a church.
dylanhenning's review against another edition
challenging
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.5
I want to preface this review by saying I read this book and am analyzing it as someone who doesn’t have a clear view of where I sit with faith at this moment in time. I would say I’m somewhere between agnostic and atheist.
I think Tim Alberta does a very good job at digging deep into American evangelicalism and how politics have been poisoning the water for decades to get us to the moment we’re at now where so many Christians are weaponizing their faith, have a victim complex, and are willing to throw their morals aside for amoral Republican politics.
What the book doesn’t do a great job of is providing solutions on how to heal this sickness and have balance between faith and morals. Alberta and his interview subjects discuss solutions a little bit and some even mount their own operations but there’s no clear vision of directive of where American Christianity goes from here.
The book also gets repetitive a lot. Each chapter follows a similar pattern of him visiting some church or community, witnessing far right extremism and conspiracies in the name of God, and then talks with people who have been ostracized from that church or community for pushing back on that rhetoric. As interesting and compelling as it is it’s also repetitive and gets stale after a while.
I think Tim Alberta does a very good job at digging deep into American evangelicalism and how politics have been poisoning the water for decades to get us to the moment we’re at now where so many Christians are weaponizing their faith, have a victim complex, and are willing to throw their morals aside for amoral Republican politics.
What the book doesn’t do a great job of is providing solutions on how to heal this sickness and have balance between faith and morals. Alberta and his interview subjects discuss solutions a little bit and some even mount their own operations but there’s no clear vision of directive of where American Christianity goes from here.
The book also gets repetitive a lot. Each chapter follows a similar pattern of him visiting some church or community, witnessing far right extremism and conspiracies in the name of God, and then talks with people who have been ostracized from that church or community for pushing back on that rhetoric. As interesting and compelling as it is it’s also repetitive and gets stale after a while.