Summary of Kristin Kobes Du Mez's Jesus and John Wayne

By IRB Media

Self-help / Eating Disorders

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Mar 9, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669357490

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Insights on Kristin Kobes Du Mez's Jesus and John Wayne

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 16

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The path that ends with John Wayne as an icon of Christian masculinity is strewn with a colorful cast of characters. By the early twentieth century, Christians recognized that they had a masculinity problem. They couldn’t shake the feeling that Christianity didn’t feel masculine, and they blamed the faith itself or the Victorian gentility of earlier Christianity.

#2

During the 1900s, American Christianity was re-masculinized by allowing men to take back the church. This new, aggressive Christianity was a perfect fit with the emerging American consumer culture.

#3

During the First World War, these two competing visions of muscular Christianity were caught up in a frenzied militarism. Liberals insisted that their own social activism exemplified a manly exercise of Christianity, while fundamentalists asserted that a staunch defense of doctrine evinced masculine courage and conviction.

#4

Following the war, the more militant model of Christian masculinity lost its appeal. In its place, the ideal of the Christian businessman resurfaced as a prototype of Christian manhood.

#5

The fundamentalist movement was not limited by denominational affiliation, and its influence was on the rise. It was not until the 1940s that they decided to unite and launch an offensive on a national scale.

#6

Evangelicals needed a network to support and amplify their individual efforts, and that network was created by Billy Graham. He was the face of evangelicalism, and his masculine credentials were bolstered by his conversion story, which drew on both athletic and military metaphors to make clear that Christianity was wholly compatible with red-blooded masculinity.

#7

Evangelicals supported the war against totalitarianism, but they also had doubts about the US military. The military was known as an institution where drunkenness, vulgarity, gambling, and sexual disease abounded.

#8

The opening of Graham’s revival was two days before Russia tested an