Quotes About David P. Gushee

American evangelicalism now requires acquiescence to attitudes and practices that fundamentally (aha!) negate core teachings of Jesus

Holy, holy, holy! Lord God Almighty! All Thy works shall praise Thy name, in earth, and sky, and sea; Holy, holy, holy; merciful and mighty! God in three Persons, blessed Trinity! Amen. —REGINALD HEBER (1783–1826)

Writing during the Nazi regime with growing knowledge of its atrocities, Bonhoeffer is probably the most important Christian theologian in my life.

American politics intervened and, in a sense, solved the evangelical identity problem—at grievous cost.

My impression is that Australia is the nation whose dynamics in relation to evangelicalism—in terms of both religious life and worldly politics—most resemble those of the United States.

In this light, I believe that one of the subtle forces producing a post-evangelicalism today is discontent with Jesus-according-to-US-white-evangelicalism.