This lucid, potent history adds a much needed religious dimension to understanding the current American right and the rise of Trump. Du Mez is a professor at Calvin University and. It's a very common theme in white evangelical writing on masculinity from the 1960s really to the present that you need to have very tough, rugged men who can protect women and children, who. 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. Published in May of 2020, Kristin Kobes Du Mez’s Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation has, as David French put it in his review, ignited an enormous amount of argument and debate across the length and breadth of the Christian intelligentsia. The recent growth of homeschooling and Quiverfull (child-centric evangelical theology) and evangelicals’ suspicion of Obama are also explored. 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. 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. Sadly enough, however, as Du Mez ably describes, he may need to defend the vulnerable from the John Waynes in the church itself. There is a need to foster his obediencean obedience in which he may sometimes find himself a warrior and protector. Starting in the early 20th century, white Christian men followed charismatic preachers in striving for a muscular, militant masculinity. There is no need to hype the manliness of the Christian man.

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. Its a very common theme in white evangelical writing on masculinity from the 1960s really to the present that you need to have very tough, rugged men who can protect women and children, who.

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