The military was known as an institution where drunkenness, vulgarity, gambling, and sexual disease abounded. The last chapter of JESUS AND JOHN WAYNE is Evangelical Mulligans: A History. 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.Įvangelicals supported the war against totalitarianism, but they also had doubts about the US military. It was not until the 1940s that they decided to unite and launch an offensive on a national scale.Įvangelicals needed a network to support and amplify their individual efforts, and that network was created by Billy Graham. The fundamentalist movement was not limited by denominational affiliation, and its influence was on the rise. In its place, the ideal of the Christian businessman resurfaced as a prototype of Christian manhood. 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.įollowing the war, the more militant model of Christian masculinity lost its appeal. This new, aggressive Christianity was a perfect fit with the emerging American consumer culture.ĭuring the First World War, these two competing visions of muscular Christianity were caught up in a frenzied militarism. 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.ĭuring the 1900s, American Christianity was re-masculinized by allowing men to take back the church. By the early twentieth century, Christians recognized that they had a masculinity problem. The path that ends with John Wayne as an icon of Christian masculinity is strewn with a colorful cast of characters. Insights from Chapter 16 Insights from Chapter 1 Insights on Kristin Kobes Du Mez's Jesus and John Wayne Contents
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