Our Great Big American God : A Short History of Our Ever-Growing Deity (Hardcover)

from RedSable

Our Great Big American God, by Matthew Paul Turner, is a unique book both in content and context. The book is focused on how God, or the understanding of God, has changed through America's history. The author's wry sense of humor is unusual in church history book. (I was tempted to stop reading a...

from kaulsu

This is a short (and incomplete) history of the Christian [Protestant] Church in America. While keeping silent about most denominations-indeed really seeming to only want to highlight the absurdities of what could almost be called the fringe element were that element not the one we hear most abou...

from SamSattler

“Our Great Big American God” is not exactly what I expected it would be when I first picked it up. But there is a big clue right on the cover of the book as to what to expect inside: the author's full name is Matthew Paul Turner. What better combination of first and middle names could there be fo...

from morningrob

Our Great Big American God attempts to trace the impact that America had on the understanding of God within Christianity. The perspective that the author is trying to make is a bit difficult to grasp. The book is not a history of Christianity in America, therefore there are a lot of movements tha...

from quaintlittlehead

This book sets out to trace the ways in which American Christians have defined who God is over the course of our country's history. It touches on some aspects I was unaware of, in spite of having read a bit about the subject already, and I will be the first to admit (hence my interest in reading ...