Respectable leaders laundered extreme patriarchy, blurring evangelical boundaries

Evidence

Through this expanding network, “respectable” evangelical leaders and organizations gave cover to their “brothers in the gospel” who were promoting more extreme expressions of patriarchy, making it increasingly difficult to distinguish margins from mainstream. … Evangelicals who offered competing visions of sexuality, gender, or the existence of hell found themselves excluded from conferences and associations, and their writings banned from popular evangelical bookstores and distribution channels. — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 464

Categorization

• XREF: Directly supports the reader’s stated aim of explaining how a dominant strand within evangelicalism (not the whole) came to define its boundaries via commercial gatekeeping.