Kevin Kruse’s One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America falls within this genre. This genre attempts to unmask the twentieth century evangelical Christian experience as more pernicious than it might appear to ordinary eyes. Du Mez is (sometimes rightly) concerned about the about the ways masculine militancy has pervaded evangelicalism’s moral and theological principles at the expense of Biblical integrity.ĭu Mez’s book belongs to a relatively new and evolving genre. By tracing the past seven or so decades of evangelicalism’s cultural imagination, she takes aim at what she regards as evangelicalism’s cult of male authority, which has toxic consequences. And depending on who’s paying attention, they will probably be either worried or thrilled to see it.įor Christians concerned about the threat of fundamentalism, Du Mez’s book will receive warm welcome. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobes Du Mez is one of those books people will notice if you carry it around the campus of your Christian college.
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