Cover; Contents; George H.W. Bush; Acronyms used; Chapter 1: Introduction: The Lost Spiritual Dimension; The Religio-Political Phenomenon; Secular or Spiritual?; Earlier Portrayals of Bush Sr.: The Overlooked Spiritual Dimension; On a Way to a More Complete Understanding of Bush; Civil Religion or Public Theology?; Bush's Critics; Sources and Method; Outline of Chapters; Chapter 2: Beginnings: From Milton to Houston; Family Background and Upbringing; Early Education and on to the War; Barbara Pierce Bush; Further Education: Yale; The Early Years in Texas: Family Trial and Business Success.

Chapter 3: Political Journey from Houston to WashingtonBush's Appointment to the United Nations; Bush's Appointment as the Head of the U.S. Liaison Office in China; Director of the CIA; The 1980 Election: Candidate for the Presidency; Back to Washington: Vice President of the United States; Bush and Christian Conservative Leaders-Falwell, Robertson, and Dobson; Jerry Falwell; Pat Robertson and James Dobson; The Presidential Election of 1988; Bush and the American Atheists; The Choice of Vice President: Dan Quayle; Episcopalian of the Year Award; Clinton, Obama, and Others on Bush.

Chapter 4: Public Presidential Theology: Foundations and InfluencesUsing Religious Language; The Inauguration Ceremonies of George H.W. Bush; "One Nation Under God"; Bush's Dogmatics; Prayer; God; Jesus Christ; The Bible; Christian Role Models; Church Leaders and Church Going; Chapter 5: Domestic Policies: Influence of Faith in Public Life; Church and State; Prayer in Public Schools; Ethics and Federal Ethics Law Reform; The Thousand Points of Light Initiative; Environmental Issues; War on Drugs; The Abortion Issue; Bush's Supreme Court Nominations; Pardons.

Chapter 6: Foreign Policies: Moral and Religious Arguments for Military Intervention and the Iraq WarThe End of the Communist Experiment; Military Intervention I: "Operation Just Cause"; Military Intervention II: Operation Desert Storm; Chapter 7: Presidential Election of 1992: On a High But Still Losing the Election; Chapter 8: Bush Sr. and the Civil Religion Debate: A Re-Evaluation; The inauguration of the contemporary debate; Various types of civil religion; The Roots of Civil Religion; Components of the religious dimension; Some concluding reflections; Appendix 1.

Examples of Primary Source Material: Two Proclamations, one Remark and a Christmas MessageProclamation 6100 -- International Year of Bible Reading, 1990 February 22, 1990; A Proclamation; Proclamation 6243 -- For a National Day of Prayer, February 3, 1991; February 1, 1991; Remarks during a Thanksgiving Day Service on Board the U.S.S. Nassau in the Persian Gulf; November 22, 1990; Christmas Message to American Troops December 24, 1990; Appendix 2; Direct or Indirect Quotations from the Bible by President Bush; Bibliography: Sources and Literature; The White House.