AN American Gospel: On Family, History, and the Kingdom of God

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Overview

From the award-winning author of Lost Mountain, a stirring, inspiring work of memoir, spiritual journey, and historical inquiry—a dazzling chronicle of a personal and national identity reclaimed.

Erik Reece's grandfather was a Bible-thumping, fire-and-brimstone Baptist preacher. He loved to hunt and fish and explore the Kentucky woods, but for him, existence on this earth was about denying the pleasures of this life in preparation for the next. Erik's father was a Baptist minister, too. But at the age of thirty-three—not coincidentally, Jesus' age when he was crucified— Erik's father violently took his own life, and Erik ended up spending much of his childhood in the care of his grandparents.

So, while Erik grew up with a conflicted relationship with Christianity, he also grew up with an acute awareness of a part of the country suffering ongoing economic, environmental, and even spiritual collapse. When he himself neared age thirty-three, he found unexpected comfort and guidance in his intellectual hero Thomas Jefferson's famous Jefferson Bible, especially when he began to track similarities between it and the Zen-like message of the Gospel of Thomas. Inspired, he undertook what would become a spiritual and literary quest—to identify an “American gospel” coursing through the work of both great and forgotten American geniuses, from William Byrd to Walt Whitman to William James to Lynn Margulis. In synthesizing that gospel—one that prizes the pleasures and glories of this earth—Reece began to find a way to a spiritual and intellectual peace with his own American soul.

The result of Reece's journey is a deeply personal but also deeply thought out, inspiring, and stirring book, delivered almost like a secular sermon, about personal, political, and historical demons—and the geniuses we can and must call on to combat them.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781594488597
  • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
  • Publication date: 4/2/2009
  • Pages: 240
  • Product dimensions: 5.50 (w) x 8.10 (h) x 1.00 (d)

Meet the Author

Erik Reece is the author of Lost Mountain, winner of the Sierra Club's David R. Brower Award for environmental writing, among other prizes. His work appears regularly in Harper's Magazine and other publications. He teaches English and writing at the University of Kentucky in Lexington.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

I First Shot 11

Open Eyes 13

Accommodation 27

William Byrd's New World 37

The Gospel According to Thomas Jefferson 57

II Walt Whitman at Furnace Mountain 81

III The Kingdom of God 141

The End of Religion 179

Sources 219

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 19, 2009

    Interesting Perspective

    This book provides an interesting perspective, especially for someone whose background is in fundamentalist evangelical Christianity. Sometimes it seems a bit of a stretch as the author attempts to establish relationships between the views of the various authors and philosophers that he cites. Nevertheless, the discussion raises good questions worthy of further consideration.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 20, 2009

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    Fascinating Autobiography from Author of "Lost Mountain"

    I actually liked this book better than Lost Mountain. In it, Erik Reece describes his upbringing in a strict fundamentalist home where his minister father committed suicide when Erik was a teenager. He then goes on to describe his quest for faith and how a truly American Gospel has already been written by the likes of Thomas Jefferson and others. This gospel is one that is tied directly to a love and connection to nature and steers clear of the Christian fundamentalist notion that Jesus is the only way to know God.

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    Posted August 2, 2009

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