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. This passage is one of many clear and powerful testimonies to the deity of Christ in the New Testament. Jesus and John Wayne is a sweeping, revisionist history of the last seventy-five years of white evangelicalism, revealing how evange. John 1:14-18 makes it clear that this Word that John is talking about is Jesus Christ. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The 'paradigm-influencing' book (Christianity Today) that is fundamentally transforming our understanding of white evangelicalism in America. 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. Why is Jesus called the Word The gospel of John famously opens, In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 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. If you need an analogy, the next phrase serves. 5:5 speak of him as begotten of the Father John 1:14 and 3:18 both use the Greek word monogenous, which means only-begotten). 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. These are biblical assertions (Mark 1:1 and 1 John 4:15 call Jesus the Son of God Acts 13:33 and Heb.
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