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alanced drama with <strong>in</strong>tellect and gavebirth to universities like Pr<strong>in</strong>ceton andDartmouth, the Second Great Awaken<strong>in</strong>gwas even more personality-driven; its leadersfocused purely on draw<strong>in</strong>g crowds. Believ<strong>in</strong>g,as many megachurch pastors dotoday, that too academic an approachwould fail to pack tents, many evangelicalleaders gave up on <strong>in</strong>tellectual values altogetherand embraced their roles as salesmenand enterta<strong>in</strong>ers. “My theology! Ididn’t know I had any!” exclaimed then<strong>in</strong>eteenth-century evangelist D. L. Moody.This k<strong>in</strong>d <strong>of</strong> oratory affected not onlystyles <strong>of</strong> worship, but also people’s ideas <strong>of</strong>who Jesus was. A 1925 advertis<strong>in</strong>g executivenamed Bruce Fairchild Barton publisheda book called <strong>The</strong> Man Nobody Knows. Itpresented Jesus as a superstar sales guywho “forged twelve men from the bottomranks <strong>of</strong> bus<strong>in</strong>ess <strong>in</strong>to an organization thatconquered the world.” This Jesus was no806/929

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