Believe Me: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump by John Fea

Believe Me: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump by John Fea

A historian's discerning, critical take on current American politics

Believe me may be the most commonly used phrase in Donald Trump's lexicon. Whether about building a wall or protecting a Christian heritage, the refrain has been constant. And to the surprise of many, a good 80 percent of white evangelicals have believed Trump--at least enough to help propel him into the White House.

Historian John Fea is not surprised, however--and in these pages he explains how we have arrived at this unprecedented moment in American politics. An evangelical Christian himself, Fea argues that the embrace of Donald Trump is the logical outcome of a long-standing evangelical approach to public life defined by the politics of fear, the pursuit of worldly power, and a nostalgic longing for an American past.

As insightful as it is timely, Fea's Believe Me challenges Christians to replace fear with hope, the pursuit of power with humility, and nostalgia with history.

Fea, John: - John Fea (PhD, State University of New York at Stony Brook) is distinguished professor of American history at Messiah University in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. He is the author of Was America Founded as a Christian Nation? and the coeditor of Confessing History: Explorations in Christian Faith and the Historian's Vocation. He writes a popular daily blog, The Way of Improvement Leads Home.

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ISBN 13	9780802877420
ISBN 10	0802877427
Title	Believe Me: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump
Author	John Fea
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Eerdmans
Year published	2020-01-07
Number of pages	248
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