the religious uses of Nietzsche are less a study of how his ideas transformed religious thought than a story of how religious readers imaginatively appropriated, adapted, and domesticated his ideas in their effort to reassert their flagging moral authority in modernizing America. Nietzsche’s philosophy made important contributions to turn-of-the-century Christian apologetics in America, and thus proved itself a crucial if unlikely resource for strengthening religious commitments and overcoming the crises facing institutional religion as it backed its way into a new century.
Xtians used N for their own purposes
