Many of today's evangelicals might not be theologically astute, but they know their VeggieTales, they've read John Eldredge's Wild at Heart, and they learned about purity before they learned about sex-and they have a silver ring to prove it. isOwnedB圜ollections True title Jesus and John Wayne fullDescriptionĪs acclaimed scholar Kristin Du Mez explains, the key to understanding this transformation is to recognize the centrality of popular culture in contemporary American evangelicalism. Jesus and John Wayne is a sweeping, revisionist history of the last seventy-five years of white evangelicalism, revealing how evangelicals have worked to replace the Jesus of the Gospels with an idol of rugged masculinity and Christian nationalism-or in the words of one modern chaplain, with "a spiritual badass."Īs acclaimed scholar Kristin Du Mez explains, the key to understanding this transformation is to recognize the centrality of popular culture in contemporary American evangelicalism. The "paradigm-influencing" book (Christianity Today) that is fundamentally transforming our understanding of white evangelicalism in America. PublishDate T05:00:00+01:00 publishDateText mediaType eBook shortDescription She has written for the Washington Post, Christianity Today, Christian Century, and Religion & Politics, among other publications.
Stop making excuses for sinning, and suffer in the mist of your joy. “The Holy Spirit will guide you in all truth”. In other words when you use the word “atonement” make sure you know what biblical atonement means, when you use the words “The Sovereignty of God” make sure you understand what that means in which it “transcends the finite” God had the Bible written for even simple regenerated mind, that a mere ploughboy could understand. It is called by some the language “Calvinese”. They had words to explain this these things. I never even knew what a Calvinist or heard of such a thing or a Reformed theology.
They see the same in scripture, just like me. Sproul, She said: I don’t understand them and I don’t understand you but one thing I do know “you talk just like them”! So I check them out, WOW! I said I am not crazy! LOL they think just like me. I replied what guys? she said John MacArthur, R.C. She said: why are you with these guys, you need to hang out with these other guys because you talk just like them. John MacArthur most of the time is on point.