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FUNDAMENTALISM UNDER ATTACK.(COMMENTARY)(Review)

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From: The Virginian Pilot
Date: 19971221
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Byline: CRAIG WANSINK

STEALING JESUS

How Fundamentalism Betrays Christianity

BRUCE BAWER

Crown Publishers, 352 pp. $26.

Writer Ambrose Bierce's sarcastic definition of ``Scripture'' - ``The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based'' - captures the exclusivism that Bruce Bawer attacks in Stealing Jesus: How Fundamentalism Betrays Christianity.

Bawer, a literary essayist and cultural critic, divides modern American Christianity into two camps, which he calls the ``Church of ...

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