I come to this book as an evangelical who: As Du Mez observes, the beliefs at the heart of white evangelicalism today preceded Trump, and will outlast him. Revealing the role of popular culture in evangelicalism, Du Mez shows how evangelicals have worked for decades to replace the Jesus of the Gospels with an idol of rugged masculinity and Christian nationalism in the mold of Ronald Reagan, Mel Gibson, and above all, John Wayne. In Jesus and John Wayne, a seventy-five-year history of American evangelicalism, Kristin Kobes Du Mez demolishes the myth that white evangelicals “held their noses” in voting for Donald Trump. You can watch a talk by Du Mez about her book here. The book is Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation. She’s well-credentialed and knows what she’s talking about. One of those books is by Kristin Du Mez, a historian at Calvin University, in Grand Rapids, who holds a PhD from Notre Dame. Both books critique the brand that has become American evangelicalism. Two female scholars have released books in 2021 that have caused a big kerfluffle in the evangelical world.
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