Rather than dismissing them, this work takes them seriously and literally and offers a frank and disturbing series of portraits of their determination to win at all costs.Īnother historical book was published (April 2021) by Du Mez’ good friend Beth Allison Barr: The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth. This is the story of how Trump has become a secular evangelical preacher and his message of fear, hatred, division, and getting even has captured the hearts and minds of evangelicals. He is their child–the result of almost one hundred years of evangelical angst, resentment, and hurt. Evangelicals are not a collection of dumb and irrational people they are the creators of the demolition presidency of Trump. Evangelicals have given birth to Donald Trump in the immaculate mistake. His “birtherism” theory was discredited, but there’s another possibility about birth. President Donald Trump originated his political career by claiming that Barack Obama was not born in the USA. The Access Hollywood tape came out, white evangelical elites continued to defend Trump, his support among white evangelical voters remained strong, and I thought, “Ugh, I think I know what’s going to happen and I think I know why.” That’s when I pulled some of that old research and wrote “Donald Trump and Militant Evangelical Masculinity.”įollowing is a webinar on this book with Kristin Du Mez done by Calvin University where she has taught since 2004:Ī link to a wide array of her talks on this overall topic/her book may be found here.įurther, in The Immaculate Mistake: How Evangelicals Gave Birth to Donald Trump (2021) by Rodney Wallace Kennedy, we discover: However, just before the election, things clicked for me. As a Christian myself, I wanted to be careful about shining a bright light on this dark underbelly of American Christianity if it was merely a fringe phenomenon. For another, I wasn’t sure at first how mainstream it all was. I wasn’t sure that I wanted to live with that for the years that I knew it would take to write a book. For one, the things that I was uncovering were very depressing. Yes! Since about 2010, I had been giving talks on evangelicalism and masculinity and had been approached by publishers, but there were two things at that point that made me a little hesitant to dive into a book project. In an interview with Religion & Politics, the author discusses how she came to its writing: This is a highly disturbing–and informative–book. WN: This is one of the few times I also posted a book review to this Blog. Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2020, 356 pages Book Review of: Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
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