Jesus and John Wayne (Book Review)

Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith & Culture

Talbot School of Theology at Biola University / Sean McDowell & Scott Rae

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🗓️ 11 March 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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This episode is also available as a video on Biola's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0hzJ0yGlHU The book Jesus and John Wayne has been the topic of immense discussion over the past few months. The subtitle of the book captures the key idea developed by Kristin Kobes Du Mez: "How white evangelicals corrupted a faith and fractured a nation." She argues that the election of Trump was not an aberration, but the natural result of certain militant, patriarc...

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0:00.0	Hey, welcome to our conversation today with Sean and me.
0:05.0	We don't have a particular guest in mind,
0:07.0	though we are going to talk about a controversial and provocative new book
0:11.0	that's getting a lot of traction in circles, not in
0:15.6	an evangelical or Christian circles, but in broader cultural circles as well.
0:19.4	The book is titled very provocatively,
0:22.6	Jesus and John Wayne.
0:25.2	In the subtitle I think is particularly revealing
0:27.8	how white evangelicals corrupted a faith
0:30.3	and fractured a nation. The author is Kristen Cobs Dumas, she's a nation.
0:32.7	The author is Christian Cubes Dumas.
0:34.3	She's a historian at Calvin University.
0:36.8	She's widely published, has written a number of other things having to do with women
0:40.7	and the gospel, and it's published in a variety of national publications
0:45.2	as well. She's a very respected historian but has come out with a very
0:49.0	controversial topic that we want to explore we want to see we want to look both at the
0:53.9	merits and the demerits of the book and take an honest and fair how we hope fair
1:00.5	assessment of it to to its contributions, what she got right, and
1:06.0	where we would take issue with her. So Sean really delighted to be able to talk about
1:10.5	this just together with the two of us. So maybe the first thing that we
1:16.8	want to talk about was how should we approach such a controversial book like this because there there are a couple different ways to look at this
1:25.7	and I want to make sure that we're reading this through the right set of lenses
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