Bill Gothard built a movement teaching divinely ordained parental authority

Evidence

BILL GOTHARD IS A NAME unfamiliar to those outside of conservative evangelical circles, and within those circles his name is likely to provoke conflicting reactions, including not a few straight-up denunciations. Gothard got his start in 1961 by founding Campus Teams, an organization that aimed to address the problems of “wayward youth.” Inspired by research he had conducted for his master’s thesis in Christian education at Wheaton College, Gothard sought to apply Christian principles to solving conflicts between parents and teens. He later changed the name of the organization to the Institute in Basic Youth Conflicts to reflect this focus. (He would later change the name again to the more general Institute in Basic Life Principles, or IBLP.) The advice Gothard offered to Christian parents navigating the difficult adolescent years, a task made even more challenging by the cultural upheaval of the 1960s, centered on the proper administration of divinely ordained authority. — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 174

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces IBLP (Institute in Basic Life Principles), a key term that recurs throughout the book.
• XREF: connects to: Gothard’s patriarchal curriculum reached millions and shaped major Christian Right leaders — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 429; Gothard’s chain-of-command doctrine unified family, church, state, and business under one authority principle — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 176; Authoritarian patriarchal teaching entered mainstream evangelical homes through homeschooling curricula — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 181
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Gothard’s patriarchal curriculum reached millions and shaped major Christian Right leaders — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 429; Gothard’s chain-of-command doctrine unified family, church, state, and business under one authority principle — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 176; Authoritarian patriarchal teaching entered mainstream evangelical homes through homeschooling curricula — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 181

Broader Connections

• Gothard’s chain-of-command doctrine unified family, church, state, and business under one authority principle #expands (0.92) — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 176