Sacralizing Violence: A Reply to Gerald McDermott

June 25th, 2025 | 15 min read

Gerald McDermott has written–and First Things has published–an inaccurate and snidely dismissive review of Munther Isaac’s Christ in the Rubble titled Genocide in Gaza?

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Matt Prechter

Matthew Prechter is on staff at an Anglican Church in Wheaton, IL. He holds a B.A. in Biblical and Theological Studies from Wheaton College (IL), an M.A. in Religion from the University of Chicago Divinity School and this Fall will begin an M.T.S. in Peace and Justice at St. Stephen’s University, New Brunswick with a focus on the Palestinian experience in partnership with Bethlehem Bible College.

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