Gender beliefs, not other doctrines, came to define true evangelical identity

Evidence

Among complementarians, other doctrinal commitments seemed to pale in comparison to beliefs about gender, and ideas about male authority and the subordination of women increasingly came to distinguish “true evangelicals from pseudo evangelicals.” The already mature market for resources on Christian masculinity meant that distribution channels were in place to disseminate conservative teachings on “biblical manhood” far and wide, works that would further orient American evangelicalism around the gender divide. — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 388

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: Central to the reader’s contest of her thesis: the claim that gender eclipsed all other doctrinal commitments in defining evangelical authenticity is the load-bearing, contestable assertion of the book.