Another 'history' book has been published by an evangelical writer/radio host, Eric Metaxas, purporting to tell us that Christianity played far more of a role in the foundation of this nation that those secular, academics are willing to admit.
Mr Metaxas, though he failed to mention the influence of David Barton in his book,
If You Can Keep It: The Forgotten Promise of American Liberty, has since publication admitted that his work owes a great deal to Mr Barton's various works of 'history'.
BUT, just as with Barton's books, Metaxas' volume is little more than yet another attempt to create a past which never was.
There are historians and academics who are evangelical Christians who are just a tad upset with Metaxas and his false history.
Links to a few reviews by such people
Warren Throckmorton, Professor of Psychology at Grove City College and Fellow for Psychology and Public Policy at the Center for Vision and Values which is a part of Grove City College.
Most recent project is
Getting Jefferson Right: Fact Checking Claims about Our Third President, which is a book with GCC colleague Michael Coulter. In the book, we fact-check claims often made by Christian Nationalists about Thomas Jefferson. The book was triggered by the publication of David Barton’s
The Jefferson Lies, a book which brings most of those claims together.
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John Fea, (Ph.D, Stony Brook University, 1999) is Professor of American History and Chair of the History Department at Messiah College in Grantham, Pennsylvania, where he has taught since 2002.
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