“The United States is unique among modern industrial countries in its devotion to Jesus as personal savior and cultural hero.  Two-thirds of Americans claim that Jesus is divine as well as a man who walked the earth in ancient Palestine…the “new birth” Jesus preached has matched up nicely with the traditional secular American belief in new identities for individuals and new beginnings for the nation.”

That’s the topic for the last Phi Theta Kappa seminar this year, on Saturday, April 29.   Read more about Jesus and church-state issues – past and present – in America.

Balmer, Randall.  Blessed Assurance: A History of Evangelicalism in America.  BR1642 .U5 B34 1999

The Battle for Souls (DVD).  BR1642 .A35 N543x 2004

Boston, Robert.  Close Encounters with the Religious Right: Journeys into the Twilight Zone of Religion and Politics.  BR526 .B575 2000

Brown, Frank Burch.  Good Taste, Bad Taste, and Christian Taste: Aesthetics in Religious Life.  BR115 .A8 B785 2000

Bruce, Steve.  God is Dead: Secularization in the West.  BL2747.8 .B78 2002

_____.  The Rise and Fall of the New Christian Right: Conservative Protestant Politics in America 1978 – 1988.  BR1642 .U5 B78 1988

Cahill, Thomas.  Desire of the Everlasting Hills: The World Before and After Jesus.  BT301.2 .C34 1999b

Copan, Paul.  How Do You Know You’re Not Wrong?  Responding to Objections That Leave Christians Speechless.  BT1212 .C665 2005

Cromartie, Michael, ed.  Disciples and Demoracy: Religious Conservatives and the Future of American Politics.  BR1642 .U5 D57 1994

Crossan, John Dominic.  The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant.  BT301.2 .C76 1991

Dimont, Max I.  Appointment in Jerusalem: A Search for the Historical Jesus.  BT303.2 .D53 1991

Dorrien, Gary.  The Making of American Liberal Theology: Imagining Progressive Religion 1805 – 1900.  BR525 .D597x 2001

Edwards, James R.  Is Jesus the Only Savior?  BT203 .E39 2005

Feldman, Noah.  Divided by God: America’s Church-State Problem – and What We Should Do About It.  BR516 .F43 2005

Ford, David F. and Mike Higton.  Jesus.  BT203 .J467 2002

Ford, Richard Q.  The Parables of Jesus: Recovering the Art of Listening.  BT375.2 .F67 1997

Frankl, Razelle.  Televangelism: The Marketing of Popular Religion.  BV656.3 .F73 1987

Hutcheson, Richard G., Jr.  God in the White House: How Religion Has Changed the Modern Presidency.  BR516 .H78 1988

Jesus: His Life and Times.  BT301.2 .G38 1979

Jurinski, James John.  Religion on Trial: A Handbook with Cases, Laws, and Documents.  KF4865 .J87 2004

Koschorke, Albrecht.  The Holy Family and Its Legacy: Religious Imagination from the Gospels to Star Wars.  BT313 .K6813 2003

Lee, Francis Graham.  Church-State Relations.  KF4865 .L44 2002

Martin, William.  With God on Our Side: The Rise of the Religious Right in America.  BR1642 .U5 M37 1996

Menendez, Albert J.  The December Wars: Religious Symbols and Ceremonies in the Public Square.  KF4865 .M46 1993

Moore, James P., Jr.  One Nation Under God: The History of Prayer in America.  BV207 .M66 2005

Moore, Roy.  So Help Me God: The Ten Commandments, Judicial Tyranny, and the Battle for Religious Freedom.  KF368 .M635 A3x 2005

Neuhaus, Richard John and Michael Cromartie, eds.  Piety and Politics: Evangelicals and Fundamentalists Confront the World.  BR1642 .U5 P55 1987

Noonan, John T., Jr.  The Lustre of Our Country: The American Experience of Religious Freedom.  BR516 .N59 1998

Pelikan, Jaroslav.  The Illustrated Jesus Through the Centuries.  BT198 .P44 1997

Reed, Ralph.  Active Faith: How Christians Are Changing the Soul of American Politics.  BR526 .R43 1996

Renan, Ernest.  The Life of Jesus.  BT301 .R4 1991

Schafer, Peter.  Mirror of His Beauty: Feminine Images of God from the Bible to the Early Kabbalah.  BT153 .M6 S29 2002

Schultze, Quentin J.  Televangelism and American Culture: The Business of Popular Religion.  BV656.3 .S385 1991

Schweitzer, Albert.  The Quest of the Historical Jesus: A Critical Study of its Progress from Reimarus to Wrede.  BT303 .S42 1998

Theissen, Gerd and Annette Merz.  The Historical Jesus: A Comprehensive Guide.  BT297 .T4713 1998

Wallis, Jim.  God’s Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It.  BR526 .W265 2005

Wilson, A. N.  Jesus: A Life.  BT301.2 .W525 1992