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American Idolatry

How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church

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American Idolatry

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Power. Fear. Violence. These three idols of Christian nationalism are corrupting American Christianity.

Andrew Whitehead is a leading scholar on Christian nationalism in America and speaks widely on its effects within Christian communities. In this book, he shares his journey and reveals how Christian nationalism threatens the spiritual lives of American Christians and the church.

Whitehead shows how Christians harm their neighbors when they embrace the idols of power, fear, and violence. He uses two key examples—racism and xenophobia—to demonstrate that these idols violate core Christian beliefs. Through stories, he illuminates expressions of Christianity that confront Christian nationalism and offer a faithful path forward.

American Idolatry encourages further conversation about what Christian nationalism threatens, how to face it, and why it is vitally important to do so. It will help identify Christian nationalism and build a framework that makes sense of the relationship between faith and the current political and cultural context.

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Andrew put a tremendous level of research into this writing (and audio experience). I'm deeply grateful for this work, confronting this particular American idolatry

Deeply grateful for how thorough this is

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This book is a must read for Christians, especially in the US. The author makes a clear case about the dangers of Christian Nationalism.

Excellent & Much Needed

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This work could not have come at a better time! With precision and social science skill, Whitehead names the idols lurking in the American church that has existed unaddressed for decades. A quick your through scripture and the repeated warnings of idolatry of Gods people, it should be normal and natural to consider how idolatry may exist in any church. His particular focus on the American church should create a pause for practitioners, pastors, ministry leaders, and leadership structures.

Timely!

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Clearly defines Christian Nationalism, and it’s detriment to those privileged and harmed by it. Offers a call for reeducation, remediation, and reform in a time when healing from this plague is so desperately needed.

Truth and Hope

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I would highly recommend American Idolatry. Similar subject matter to Jesus and John Wayne but with a social scientist’s expertise, an evangelical’s personal reflections, and a hope-filled plan for actionable redemption from the throes of white Christian nationalism. I’m a Latter-day Saint, we have our own particular brand of burden in this regard. This book renewed my faith in the potential for change and made me want to be a part of it.

An “edge of inside” follow up to Jesus and John Wayne

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This book crystallizes the ways in which we, as Christians, have mistakenly built an identity around power. It urges us to turn away from power seeking by reminding us our Christian identity is found by laying down our power as Christ did and actively seeking justice for the oppressed rather than privilege for ourselves.

Inspiring & clarifying

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Finally a voice from a Christian evangelical who recognizes the hypocrisy & misguidedness of so many Christian nationalists.

About time!

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