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Stephen Nichols on Jesus in America

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Stephen J. Nichols has written a book that every professing Christian living in America should read. Jesus Made in America: A Cultural History from the Puritans to the Passion of Christ is a masterful work tracing the cultural representations of Jesus in American history. Whether it was Jonathan Edwards, Johnny Cash, or the Jesus People, Jesus of Nazareth has been subject to a broad spectrum of representation. Nichols book is a scholarly, historically detailed and analytical work that leaves the reader wanting to know the real Jesus Christ. In some respects, this work is similar to Mark Driscoll’s Vintage Jesus. Nichols, however, takes the cultural analysis to a new level showing the cause and effect implications of cultural representations (or misrepresentations) of the Savior of the world in America.

Below you will also find a video of Derek Thomas interviewing Stephen Nichols about this book:

About Post Author

Nick Batzig is the senior pastor of Church Creek PCA in Charleston, SC and an associate editor for Ligonier Ministries. Prior to serving at Church Creek, Nick was a pastor at Wayside PCA on Signal Mountain, TN. Formerly, Nick served as the founding pastor of New Covenant Presbyterian Church (PCA) in Richmond Hill, GA and as the editor of Reformation21 and the Christward Collective--sites of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals. He frequently writes for Tabletalk Magazine, Reformation 21, He Reads Truth, and the Christward Collective. Nick was also the host of East of Eden, a podcast devoted to the Biblical and Systematic Theology of Jonathan Edwards. You can friend him on Facebook here and follow him on Twitter @nick_batzig

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