Anyone who has read Du Mez’s book knows that it is based on solid historical evidence and research.īut it seems Wilsey’s beef extends beyond Jesus and John Wayne to the field of gender history as a whole. I am guessing that many of Wilsey’s fellow conservative evangelicals will love this line from the review: “If we place Worthen, Turek, and Conroy-Krutz alongside Du Mez, we can see the difference between evidence-based history and history as social and political posturing, the firing of salvoes in the culture wars.” Frankly, this is a cheap shot and it seems to undermine Wilsey’s focus throughout the piece on historical empathy. Many of the complementarian critics of Du Mez’s work have already ignored Wilsey’s attempts at civility and have seized on the points in the review that serve their agendas.
Though Wilsey shows much more empathy than some of his Southern Baptist theobros who have allowed Du Mez to live inside their heads rent free for the last year, he is still quite critical. Southern Baptist Theological Seminary church historian John Wilsey recently took a shot at Kristin Kobes Du Mez’s Jesus and John Wayne in a review published at a conservative website called Ad Fontes.
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