Evangelicals spent a half century remaking Jesus in their own militant image

Evidence

This Jesus was over half a century in the making. Inspired by images of heroic white manhood, evangelicals had fashioned a savior who would lead them into the battles of their own choosing. The new, rugged Christ transformed Christian manhood, and Christianity itself. — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 664

Categorization

• XREF: Directly sets up the contrast with the actual historical Jesus that the reader’s own framework would contest. — connects to: Armed Christianity treats Jesus as a conqueror needing weapons — Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry, 489; American conservative Christianity exalts a hypermasculine, militarized image of Jesus. — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the…, 347