Du Mez’s book is the work of an academic writing history.ĭu Mez presents the argument that evangelical Christian churches adopted a patriarchal attitude which led to a culture of hyper-masculinity.
If you’re looking for an exegesis of Biblical Scripture, you have the wrong book. When you start reading Jesus and John Wayne, understand this is not a book on theology. Jesus and John Wayne is her most recent work, and has become a New York Times best seller. Kristin Kobes Du Mez, a professor of history at Calvin University.ĭu Mez is no stranger to the field, writing extensively in the field of religion and engaging in a number of speaking events.
This particular text is the product of Dr. Summertime provides me with the opportunity to read significantly more than the academic year, and recently, I came across one of the most difficult books I have ever read, Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation. And the child’s world is never quite whole again. It is a tedious job to build them up again they never quite shine. And there is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little they crash and shatter or sink deeply into green muck. “When a child first catches adults out - when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not have divine intelligence, that their judgments are not always wise, their thinking true, their sentences just - his world falls into panic desolation.
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