Christian identity is in moral and political crisis, scandalized by the many ways in which it has been coopted and misrepresented. Addressing this painful reality, Lee Camp writes that Christianity in America has been made into a bad public joke because of “our failure to rightly understand what Christianity is.” From this provocative claim, Camp’s manifesto makes the convincing case that a renewed Christian politic is more essential than ever, one that is “neither left nor right nor religious,” but a prophetic way of life modeled after Jesus of Nazareth.
Camp’s robust vision exposes modern parodies of faith—the American concept of “Christian values,” for one—and challenges Christians to rethink who they are and how they participate in the modern world. Authentic gospel truth is a scandal to the American myth, he argues, and we are called to be scandalous witnesses.
PROPOSITION 1 - History Is Not One Damn Thing after Another
PROPOSITION 2 - The End of History Has Already Begun
PROPOSITION 3 - American Hope Is a Bastard
PROPOSITION 4 - Christianity Is Neither a Prostitute nor a Chaplain
PROPOSITION 5 - The United States Is Not the Hope of the World
PROPOSITION 6 - The United States Was Not, Is Not, and Will Not Be a Christian Nation
PROPOSITION 7 - How Christian Values, and the Bible, Corrupt Christianity
PROPOSITION 8 - Every Empire Falls
PROPOSITION 9 - Christian Partisanship Is like a Fistfight on the Titanic
PROPOSITION 10 - Hostile Forces Have a Role in the Unfolding of History
PROPOSITION 11 - Christianity Is Not a Religion; Christianity Is a Politic
PROPOSITION 12 - Liberal Political Puissance Is Not the Goal
PROPOSITION 13 - Exemplary Political Witness Is the Goal
PROPOSITION 14 - Christianity Is Not Countercultural
PROPOSITIONS 15 - Christian Engagement Must Always Be Ad Hoc
