![]() ![]() And yet some of my concerns about Kobes du Mez’s method apply also to my concerns with some treatments of the events at the Capitol on January 6. When X is militarism, nationalism, and misogyny, and when we deeply desire to root out such things, this kind of sweeping treatment is appealing (as the book has proven to be). Because we see X in evangelicalism, therefore evangelicalism caused X, and also evangelicalism is X. I am concerned that Kobes du Mez’s use of evidence collapses into an easy theory of causation. But I have not edited my remarks on Kristin Kobes du Mez’s Jesus and John Wayne in any way, and I stand behind my critique of the book. It is a difficult and a painful time to identify in any way with evangelicals, or to offer pushback on a sustained critique of the movement, as I have below. Since then there has been a deluge of think-pieces and journalistic treatments of the events and the role “evangelicals” had in them. I wrote and submitted this essay in advance of the January 6th events at the Capitol. ![]()
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