Book Review — After Evangelicalism: The Path to a New Christianity
July 14, 2021
I’m an Adventist, so why do I now feel like an ex-evangelical? This question irked me as I read David Gushee’s book
After Evangelicalism: The Path to a New Christianity. Detailing the rise of the evangelical movement in the twentieth century and its success in acquiring sub-cultural Christian dominance and overt American political power, Gushee also shares his own journey along the border and around the centers of theologically conservative white American Protestantism.
This marks about twenty books either edited or authored by David P. Gushee, PhD, who is the Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics at Mercer University. He is also the elected Past-President of both the American Academy of Religion and Society of Christian Ethics. His larger scholarly success becomes even more significant when reading his very personal telling of his academic journey which includes Union Theological Seminary and the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, a rare career pairing that gives him deep perspective into contemporary Christianity and adds a nuanced authority to his biblical, historical, and ethical critique of evangelicalism.