American Political Theology

In American Political Theology Charles W. Dunn . . . has admirably fulfilled his modest and useful intention to provide in textbook fashion a dispassionate exposition `of how why and when'' politics and religion intersect.'' This is no small feat in treating a subject so vast undefined and fraught with intense conflict and the work can be of considerable usefulness to teachers at any level who need a clear historical and theoretical analysis of the intersection as it has presented itself in the experience of our country. . . . The essays are for the most part intellectually and ethically muscular and will well repay reading by anyone who is already fairly well-grounded in the Founding. Chronicles