A good book is a conversation, engaging other books and ideas in conversation, and setting the stage for future conversations…
This is the first in a series of posts that explore the conversation into which a particular recent book emerges.
(Use the comments below to let us know what you think. Is this approach to a book helpful to you?
ALSO, feel free to suggest other books that are vital to this conversation…)
[easyazon_image align=”left” height=”250″ identifier=”0830845348″ locale=”US” src=”https://englewoodreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/51SYtGrEaVL-1.jpg” tag=”douloschristo-20″ width=”162″]Reconstructing the Gospel:
Finding Freedom from Slaveholder Religion
Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
Hardback: IVP Books, 2018.
Buy Now: [[easyazon_link identifier=”0830845348″ locale=”US” tag=”douloschristo-20″]Amazon[/easyazon_link] ] [ [easyazon_link identifier=”B0794FRTWP” locale=”US” tag=”douloschristo-20″]Kindle[/easyazon_link] ]
Watch for our review of this book in our May 2018 magazine issue!
Wading into the Conversation
What is Slaveholder Religion?
- Frederick Douglass on Slaveholder Religion
An appendix to Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - Slavery and the Slaveholder’s Religion: As Opposed to Christianity
by Abolitionist Samuel Brooke (1845)
FREE to read /download from Google Books
Author’s Background:
[easyazon_image align=”left” height=”160″ identifier=”1600061907″ locale=”US” src=”https://englewoodreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/51T10QEaLAL.SL160.jpg” tag=”douloschristo-20″ width=”107″][easyazon_link identifier=”1600061907″ locale=”US” tag=”douloschristo-20″]Free to Be Bound: Church Beyond the Color Line[/easyazon_link]
Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove (2008)
Wilson-Hartgrove’s memoir of how his understand of race and Christianity was changed.
Introductions to the Racial History of Christianity in America:
[easyazon_image align=”left” height=”160″ identifier=”1513800000″ locale=”US” src=”https://englewoodreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/51Tvk8gTyIL.SL160.jpg” tag=”douloschristo-20″ width=”104″][easyazon_link identifier=”1513800000″ locale=”US” tag=”douloschristo-20″]Trouble I’ve Seen:
Changing the Way the Church Views Racism[/easyazon_link]
Drew Hart (2016)
[easyazon_image align=”left” height=”160″ identifier=”1587434008″ locale=”US” src=”https://englewoodreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/51dqd56FFHL.SL160.jpg” tag=”douloschristo-20″ width=”106″][easyazon_link identifier=”1587434008″ locale=”US” tag=”douloschristo-20″]America’s Original Sin:
Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America[/easyazon_link]
Jim Wallis (2016)
Broadening the Conversation
[easyazon_image align=”left” height=”160″ identifier=”0807007412″ locale=”US” src=”https://englewoodreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/51qqBCPWhuL.SL160.jpg” tag=”douloschristo-20″ width=”107″]Books by William Barber:
- [easyazon_link identifier=”0807007412″ locale=”US” tag=”douloschristo-20″]The Third Reconstruction: How a Moral Movement Is Overcoming the Politics of Division and Fear[/easyazon_link]
- [easyazon_link identifier=”0827244940″ locale=”US” tag=”douloschristo-20″]Forward Together:
A Moral Message for the Nation[/easyazon_link]
Churches Living into God’s Work of
Healing / Reconciling:
[easyazon_image align=”left” height=”160″ identifier=”0830834516″ locale=”US” src=”https://englewoodreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/416fCrepkCL.SL160.jpg” tag=”douloschristo-20″ width=”104″][easyazon_link identifier=”0830834516″ locale=”US” tag=”douloschristo-20″]Reconciling All Things:
A Christian Vision for Justice, Peace and Healing (Resources for Reconciliation)[/easyazon_link]
Chris Rice /
Emmanuel Katongole (2008)
[easyazon_image align=”left” height=”160″ identifier=”0830844422″ locale=”US” src=”https://englewoodreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/51Hs9Y4aX2BL.SL160.jpg” tag=”douloschristo-20″ width=”107″][easyazon_link identifier=”0830844422″ locale=”US” tag=”douloschristo-20″]Roadmap to Reconciliation:
Moving Communities into Unity, Wholeness and Justice[/easyazon_link]
Brenda Salter McNeil (2016)
Extending the Conversation
here are some that will take you deeper into its themes)
[easyazon_image align=”left” height=”160″ identifier=”0300171366″ locale=”US” src=”https://englewoodreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/51h5UW5zf8L.SL160.jpg” tag=”douloschristo-20″ width=”103″][easyazon_link identifier=”0300171366″ locale=”US” tag=”douloschristo-20″]The Christian Imagination:
Theology and the Origins of Race[/easyazon_link]
Willie Jennings (2010)
A deeper look at the history of modern Christianity and its role in the emergence of racism
[easyazon_image align=”left” height=”160″ identifier=”0195152794″ locale=”US” src=”https://englewoodreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/41wXkdukq5L.SL160.jpg” tag=”douloschristo-20″ width=”112″][easyazon_link identifier=”0195152794″ locale=”US” tag=”douloschristo-20″]Race: A Theological Account[/easyazon_link]
J. Kameron Carter (2008)
Carter traces the pre-history of race back to the earliest days of the church.
The relevance of monastic practices (especially stability) to a new, reconciled way of being church.
Wilson-Hartgrove makes this suggestion in the final pages of Reconstructing the Gospel.
[easyazon_image align=”left” height=”160″ identifier=”1557256233″ locale=”US” src=”https://englewoodreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/51PP3VMj37L.SL160.jpg” tag=”douloschristo-20″ width=”108″][easyazon_link identifier=”1557256233″ locale=”US” tag=”douloschristo-20″]The Wisdom of Stability:
Rooting Faith
in a Mobile Culture[/easyazon_link]
Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove (2010)
[easyazon_image align=”left” height=”160″ identifier=”080706341X” locale=”US” src=”https://englewoodreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/51Bx8lKOefL.SL160.jpg” tag=”douloschristo-20″ width=”104″][easyazon_link identifier=”080706341X” locale=”US” tag=”douloschristo-20″]Staying Put:
Making a Home
in a Restless World[/easyazon_link]
Scott Russell Sanders (1994)
C. Christopher Smith is the founding editor of The Englewood Review of Books. He is also author of a number of books, including most recently How the Body of Christ Talks: Recovering the Practice of Conversation in the Church (Brazos Press, 2019). Connect with him online at: C-Christopher-Smith.com
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