The first three chapters -- "Are You a Christian?", "Who is My Neighbor?" and "Love and Law" -- set the descriptive terminology to help the reader understand the rise of religious legalism in this country during the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. But Bawer gets the reader equipped to see how what he calls "Rauschenbush's Kingdom" broadened the conflict into the 20th century.
From Rauschenbush to Texas preacher C. I. Scofield...