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Perhaps looking back through history one of the last nonfighting motherly deaths will be the story of Lilly Potter, Harry Potter’s mother. Women, too, can become like Sarah Conners in Terminator 2, the Bride (Uma Thurman) in the Kill Bill movies, Katniss in The Hunger Games, or Furiosa in Mad Max: Furry Road and be proficient with weapons, hands-on violence, and dishing out justice/revenge. 2 Still, she makes a helpful point.Īs someone largely educated in pluralistic settings, I find the equally interesting cultural story of the last forty years to be the rise of “Wonder Women.” American popular culture at all levels, but particularly in mixed martial arts, boxing, literature, and the movies, increasingly celebrates that woman can be equally violent or vigilante as men. As a Christian ethicist, I would have liked Du Mez to include a better-rounded list of some culturally neglected Christian virtues that includes holiness, courage, humility, forgiveness, patience, wisdom, mercy, faithfulness, and more. The wider range of Christian virtues Du Mez suggests that need to be added (love, peace, kindness, gentleness, and self-control) include a few that I certainly think are neglected by both Christians and virtue scholars in general (see my previous post on gentleness and this article on self-control). Thus, she raises concerns, correctly in my view, about the failure of Christian men to focus on developing a wider range of virtues instead of militant Christian masculinity “unencumbered by traditional Christian virtues” (p. 1 Her education and teaching are virtually all from Christian institutions. I thought of this hypothesis when reading Kristin Kobes Du Mez’s recent book critiquing cultural contamination within evangelicalism, Jesus and John Wayne. Of course, both are needed and help expand our vision for Christ-animated learning. I have a running hypothesis that students who attend Christian colleges or professors who teach at them tend to focus on sin or cultural contamination within the Church, but those of us who attended secular institutions or those who teach in them tend to focus on engaging with secular culture. I’m guessing that there is no better way to get responses than by posting about the controversial subject of Christianity, gender, and virtue.
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Better a patient person than a warrior one with self control than one who takes a cityĮditor’s note: I thought summer would be a good time to start a blog conversation and invite responses to a post.