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Thieves in the Temple: The Christian Church and the Selling of the American Soul

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Author Jeffrey MacDonald

Format Hardcover

Publisher Basic Books

Category Religious Studies

What has become of the Christian Church? Once devoted to molding Americans into better people, in recent years the Christian Church has gotten a corporate makeover. In a desperate attempt to bolster membership rolls, ministers have begun to treat their churches more like companies, and their congregations more like customers.As a minister in a small church and as a national religion reporter, journalist G. Jeffrey MacDonald witnessed firsthand this lapse into consumerism. He realized that in an effort to cast a wide net for souls churches have sacrificed their authority to transform Americans' self-serving impulses for the better. In the headlong rush to operate more like businesses, churches are sacrificing their moral authority, perhaps permanently. The result is a crisis for the American conscience. MacDonald's incisive critique of today's movement away from true religion shows how desperately America needs a new religious reformation.

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Jeffrey MacDonald

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  • Publisher: Basic Books
  • Format: Hardcover
  • ISBN: 9780465009329
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