Libro Reconstructing the Gospel: Finding Freedom From Slaveholder Religion De Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

portada Reconstructing the Gospel: Finding Freedom From Slaveholder Religion

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Ivp Books

Autor

Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

Año

2018

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

192

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

ISBN13

9780830845347

Categorías

Cristianos
Prácticas cristianas
Pensamiento y actividad social religiosa y pastoral

Reconstructing the Gospel: Finding Freedom From Slaveholder Religion

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★ PW Starred Review: "a must-read for Christians interested in how race-infused politics and religion undermine the American democratic dream.""I am a man torn in two. And the gospel I inherited is divided." Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove grew up in the Bible Belt in the American South as a faithful church-going Christian. But he gradually came to realize that the gospel his Christianity proclaimed was not good news for everybody. The same Christianity that sang, "Amazing grace, how sweet the sound" also perpetuated racial injustice and white supremacy in the name of Jesus. His Christianity, he discovered, was the religion of the slaveholder. Just as Reconstruction after the Civil War worked to repair a desperately broken society, our compromised Christianity requires a spiritual reconstruction that undoes the injustices of the past. Wilson-Hartgrove traces his journey from the religion of the slaveholder to the Christianity of Christ. Reconstructing the gospel requires facing the pain of the past and present, from racial blindness to systemic abuses of power. Grappling seriously with troubling history and theology, Wilson-Hartgrove recovers the subversiveness of the gospel that sustained the church through centuries of slavery and oppression, from the civil rights era to the Black Lives Matter movement and beyond. When the gospel is reconstructed, freedom rings both for individuals and for society as a whole. Discover how Jesus continues to save us from ourselves and each other, to repair the breach and heal our land.