Todd Gitlin and Liel Leibovitz have written a thoughtful critical volume on the roots and
costs of chosenness as it pertains to historical and contemporary Israel
and the United States.
Books
The Origins of Christian Zionism
Lord Shaftesbury and Evangelical Support for a Jewish Homeland
By Donald M. Lewis
Zeal for Zion
Christians, Jews, and the Idea of the Promised Land
Three new books give fresh insights into the complicated history of
evangelical Zionism. Together they present a compelling argument that
the founding fathers of the modern state of Israel were not just
Theodor Herzl and his Zionist Congress, but American and British
evangelicals who exercised tremendous political and economic power in
the 19th century—power that modern-day evangelicals like Hagee and his
allies can only dream of.
