Now, with the release date quickly approaching, I thought I. He says he can do nothing by himself, but only what he sees the Father doing (John 5:19). The Holy Spirit is the source of Jesus power. When I started the project, I couldn’t have imagined the world it would be launching into. The Holy Spirit is responsible for Jesus core identity as the unique Son of God, in his conception and anointing by the Spirit at baptism (Luke 1:35 Matthew 1:20 Luke 3:21-22).
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Evangelical popular culture is teeming with muscular heroes-mythical warriors and rugged. In a little over a week, my new book Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation will find its way into the world.
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A much-needed reexamination, Jesus and John Wayne explains why evangelicals have rallied behind the least-Christian president in American history and how they have transformed their faith in the process, with enduring consequences for all of us. Jesus and John Wayne is a sweeping account of the last seventy-five years of white evangelicalism, showing how American evangelicals have worked for decades to replace the Jesus of the Gospels with an idol of rugged masculinity and Christian nationalism. Evangelical popular culture is teeming with muscular heroes-mythical warriors and rugged soldiers, men like Oliver North, Ronald Reagan, Mel Gibson, and the Duck Dynasty clan, who assert white masculine power in defense of "Christian America." Chief among these evangelical legends is John Wayne, an icon of a lost time when men were uncowed by political correctness, unafraid to tell it like it was, and did what needed to be done. Jesus and John Wayne is a sweeping account of the last seventy-five years of white evangelicalism, showing how American evangelicals have worked for decades to replace the Jesus of the Gospels with an idol of rugged masculinity and Christian nationalism. Jesus and John Wayne calls on many big names to document American evangelicalisms post-1945 nationalism, masculine-drenched militarism, and anti-feminism that so matched Trumps 2016 candidacy.
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How did a libertine who lacks even the most basic knowledge of the Christian faith win 81 percent of the white evangelical vote in 2016? And why have white evangelicals become a presidential reprobate's staunchest supporters? These are among the questions acclaimed historian Kristin Kobes Du Mez asks in Jesus and John Wayne, which explains how white evangelicals have brought us to our fractured political moment.