
Episode 170: Kristin Kobes Du Mez - A Modern Church History of Toxic Masculinity
The Bible For Normal People
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Do You Think That's a Real Startilizing Yoman?
In the nineteenth century, you can find ideals of christian manhood that are not this kind of rugged warrior ideal. To be a man is to really master self restraint, this gentlemanly self restraint. That's this kind of victorian christian ideal of of mature masculinity. In the early twentieth century with teddy roosevelt and in the first world war,. liberal protestants who were as likely to embrace this kind of muscular christianity and christian nationalism. And we have billy graham the formation of the national association of evangelicals. And that's the era where things really come together. Yet.
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