J. Wilson-Hartgrove -Reconstructing the Gospel [In Conversation]

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…)

 

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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

(Helpful pre-reading)

 
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:

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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

(Books that explore similar themes)
 
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• [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:

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A Christian Vision for Justice, Peace and Healing (Resources for Reconciliation)[/easyazon_link]
 
Chris Rice /
Emmanuel Katongole (2008)
 
 
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Moving Communities into Unity, Wholeness and Justice[/easyazon_link]
 
Brenda Salter McNeil (2016)
 
 
 
 

Extending the Conversation

(If you’ve found this book helpful,
here are some that will take you deeper into its themes)
 
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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.

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Rooting Faith
in a Mobile Culture[/easyazon_link]
 
Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove (2010)
 
 
 
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Making a Home
in a Restless World[/easyazon_link]
 
Scott Russell Sanders (1994)