Author Meets Critics Panel: *Who Is a True Christian? Contesting Religious Identity in American Culture* (Cambridge University Press, 2024), by David W. Congdon

David W. Congdon’s book *Who Is a True Christian? Contesting Religious Identity in American Culture* (Cambridge University Press, 2024) critiques orthodoxy as a violent form of religious identity. By providing a thorough intellectual history of modern Christian boundary-making from the Reformation to today’s MAGA evangelicals, he shows that conservative defenders of so-called “historic Christianity” are just as modern as the mainline liberals whom they oppose. Congdon proposes “polydoxy” as a pluralistic and liberating alternative. Four scholars will discuss his book and its relevance for Christian theology and understanding evangelicalism in today’s political environment: Jill Hicks-Keeton (University of Southern California), Cambria Kaltwasser (Northwestern College), Evan Kuehn (North Park University), and John J. Thatamanil (Union Theological Seminary, NYC).