This lucid, potent history adds a much needed religious dimension to understanding the current American right and the rise of Trump. Charles John Huffam Dickens FRSA (/ d k n z / 7 February 1812 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. Wilsey is Associate Professor of Church History and Philosophy at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Several months ago I read Kristin Kobes Du Mez’s Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation.
Persuasively arguing that the evangelical dismissal of Trump’s flaws is the culmination of believing that “God-given testosterone came with certain side effects,” Du Mez closes with a bruising chapter on recent evangelical leaders’ abuses and sex scandals, such as those involving Mark Driscoll, Ted Haggard, and C.J. When lauding the book in a longer review, Stroop says, one of the key points of the book stresses that as Christian nationalists, the vast majority of white evangelicals believe that our country’s flourishing depends on aggressive male. (3) The archetype for this ideology is John Wayne, the famous American actor, and exemplar of all that is rugged, masculine, and heroic. The recent growth of homeschooling and Quiverfull (child-centric evangelical theology) and evangelicals’ suspicion of Obama are also explored. Stroop’s review is the one that’s been chosen to grace the front cover of Jesus and John Wayne. It was, rather, the culmination of evangelicals’ embrace of militant masculinity, an ideology that enshrines patriarchal authority and condones the callous display of power at home and abroad. Believing that wounds from a friend can be trusted (Pro 27:6), we would do well to heed those Jesus and John Wayne.
Indeed, Kristin Kobes Du Mez’ book is one that can help jolt us to the reality of what we have made and become. Making the New York Times bestsellers list is a first for Du Mez, a history and gender studies professor, as well as an accomplishment for the. For many of us, reading Jesus and John Wayne might feel a little like that. 9/11, she argues, revitalized the extreme warrior ideal for evangelical men and curtailed the softer patriarchy fostered by the Promise Keeper rallies of the 1990s. Jesus and John Wayne is a book that needed to be written and needs to be widely read and discussed. Du Mez’s 2020 book Jesus and John Wayne has landed on one of the most prestigious book lists in the nation almost a year after its debut, reaching 4 on the Paperback Nonfiction Books category. For Du Mez, the growth of Christian publishing and popular culture in the mid-century reinforced the sense that evangelicals were at war with liberal social movements like feminism and civil rights.
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Starting in the early 20th century, white Christian men followed charismatic preachers in striving for a muscular, militant masculinity. Gaither Vocal Band - Official Video for Jesus and John Wayne (Live)', available nowBuy the full length DVD/CD ‘Country Bluegrass Homecoming Vol. Historian Du Mez ( A New Gospel for Women) explains white evangelical support for Trump in this engaging history of the shifting ideal of Christian masculinity.
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