<I>This is a&#160;<a href=http://www.eerdmans.com/Pag%20es/About/Books-on-%20Demand.aspx>print on demand</a>&#160;book and is therefore non- returnable.</I><BR /><BR /> In this book Dyrness explores the relationship between the biblical gospel and American culture. He shows how three dominant American cultural values &mdash; pragmatism optimism and individualism &mdash; have both a positive and negative impact on our Christian discipleship looks at Walter Rauschenbusch and Robert Schuller as case studies and sets out a distinctively American way of appropriating the gospel.