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*** Our 2025 Book of the Year!
The Anti-Greed Gospel: Why the Love of Money Is the Root of Racism and How the Church Can Create a New Way Forward
Malcolm Foley
Paperback: Brazos Press, 2025
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In his landmark book The Christian Imagination, theologian Willie James Jennings calls the greed that gave birth to the displacement and exploitation of racism, colonialism, and enslavement “a theological mistake so wide, so comprehensive that it has disappeared, having expanded to cover the horizon of modernity itself.” Foley names this well, connecting the dots between our theological shortcomings and their economic consequences. He builds from this a powerful call to remember the biblical obligation to love our neighbors through our economic lives. What he offers is not a policy solution (though the implications of his argument certainly point to some), but an exorcism of sorts—the message of Jesus is clear, and we need to repent of our idolatry and believe the gospel. The burning question, he says, is not whether American Christians know what to do, but whether we are willing to be a people who live out the gospel we say we believe
- From our review by Justin Lonas
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