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balanced drama with intellect and gave
birth to universities like Princeton and
Dartmouth, the Second Great Awakening
was even more personality-driven; its leaders
focused purely on drawing crowds. Believing,
as many megachurch pastors do
today, that too academic an approach
would fail to pack tents, many evangelical
leaders gave up on intellectual values altogether
and embraced their roles as salesmen
and entertainers. “My theology! I
didn’t know I had any!” exclaimed the
nineteenth-century evangelist D. L. Moody.
This kind of oratory affected not only
styles of worship, but also people’s ideas of
who Jesus was. A 1925 advertising executive
named Bruce Fairchild Barton published
a book called The Man Nobody Knows. It
presented Jesus as a superstar sales guy
who “forged twelve men from the bottom
ranks of business into an organization that
conquered the world.” This Jesus was no
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