Du Mez, an excellent writer, connects the dots and opens up windows of understanding, reminding the reader that other choices can be made, should be made that we can write a better story, a story more fully shaped by Scripture and the historic Christian Faith. Du Mez is a historian and so her book offers a. I’ve been working through the list and have just completed Du Mez’s book. It’s also one of the books mentioned by Jonathan Leeman in article about deconstruction. Du Mez reviews how a one-lime theological movement became a cultural force characterized by sexism, racism, and militarism, linked to a view of biblical manhood dominated by the imagery of John Wayne -the kind of "man," the kind of "manliness," needed to "restore American Christianity, preserve the American home, and save America from its enemies." Dr. Jesus and John Wayne (Review) One of the big hitter books of the last year has been Jesus and John Wayne by Kristin Kobes Du Mez. Careful statements about correlation and sociological and anthropological secondary literature are often missing. It is eminently readable, but there have been scholarly virtues traded for popular appeal.
Years in the making, backed up by deep research, and tons of footnotes, Dr. Jesus and John Wayne is a trade book, written for popular appeal and a broad readership. corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation.Kristen Kobes Du Mez, Calvin University, Grand Rapids, Ml: Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals All of us have a place in the sunīOOK REVIEW: A major overview of evangelical Christianity in America, by an eminent Christian historian from a leading Christian university: Dr. With this in mind, If you are likely to take offense, please skip over the following book review. you should a!! be of one mind living like people with true love and sympathy for each other, generous and courteous at all times." (I Peter 3:8-9, Phillips translation). None of you should think only of his own affairs, but should learn to see things from other people's point of view" (Phillips translation). Never act from motives of rivalry or personal vanity, but in humility think more of each other than you do of yourselves. Paul hopes we will "live together in harmony, live together in love, as though you had only one mind and one spirit among you. 158) Then the term, "white evangelicals" came into use, a political term rather than a theological distinction. The term became politicized "in the 1980s when the right began to align itself with the Republican National Committee" (ibid. Historian John Wilsey, in a perceptive review of Kristen Du Mez’s Jesus and John Wayne, says that he offers his criticism through the lens of one of the most powerful essays he has ever read.The essay is Beth Barton Schweiger’s Seeing Things: Knowledge and Love in History, Confessing History: Explorations in Christian Faith and the Historian’s Vocation, ed. We at Monte Vista Grove Homes are of wildly divergent minds regarding theology, gun control, abortion, gay rights, death penalty, and immigration policy, etc.Ĭlassic evangelicalism comprises a particular regard for the Bible, emphasis on the atonement achieved by Christ's crucifixion, conversion, and the belief that the gospel has implications for how we live (Still Evangelical? ed.
Paul wishes us to be of the same mind (Phil.