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| | Jesus of Galilee, American Hero - The Washington Times: Non-Fiction Review - June 06, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | Fox was raised Catholic, and although he seems to have drifted away from the faith, he retains an appreciation for the extent to which Catholicism shaped American religious consciousness. |
 | | Fox is in many ways a stereotypical academic liberal in his treatment of European-Native American relations in the New World; he remarks that the missionaries "tethered" Jesus "to the campaign for European control." Nonetheless, he recognizes that Indian cultures had their flaws as well, sanctioning polygamy, vengeance, wife-beating, cannibalism, and extraordinary cruelty to captured enemies. |
 | | Richard Fox is an imaginative researcher with some interesting ideas, but he is unwilling to control or make sustained sense out of the material he has collected that testifies to Jesus' enduring importance in American religious life. |
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