Diverse theological traditions converged on a single template of Christian masculinity

Evidence

THANKS TO THE EVANGELICAL men’s movement, books on Christian masculinity began to roll off the presses. Drawing on charismatic and therapeutic traditions, prosperity teachings, Christian Reconstructionism, conservative Southern Baptist theology, and neo-Calvinism, authors ended up crafting visions of Christian masculinity that looked remarkably similar. In the 1990s, the most popular “blueprint for Christian manhood” to emerge was that of the “tender warrior.” — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 364

Categorization

• XREF: The convergence across theological streams is exactly the evidence Du Mez marshals for a single transdenominational evangelical culture — key to her ‘dominant strand’ claim. — connects to: Nineteenth-century reactionary thought made the patriarchal family a microcosm of divine order — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 253; The black church simultaneously united and divided men and women by gender — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 702; Black ministers fused humility with assertive Christian manhood without contradiction — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 666