Can "white" people be saved? : triangulating race, theology, and mission / edited by Love L. Sechrest, Johnny Ramírez-Johnson, and Amos Yong.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sechrest, Love L., 1962- editor.

Ramírez-Johnson, Johnny, editor.

Yong, Amos, editor.

Series:

Missiological engagements

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Missions.

History.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

Race relations.

Latin America--Race relations.

Latin America.

Missions--America--History.

White people--Race identity.

White people.

Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity.

America.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 336 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Downers Grove, Illinois : IVP Academic, An imprint of InterVarsity Press, [2018]

Summary:

Yes, White people can be saved. In God's redemptive plan, that goes without saying. But what about the reality of white normativity? This idea and way of being in the world has been parasitically joined to Christianity, and this is the ground of many of our problems today. It is time to redouble the efforts of the church and its institutions to muster well-informed, gospel-based initiatives to fight racialized injustice and overcome the heresy of whiteness. Written by a world-class roster of scholars, Can "White" People Be Saved? develops language to describe the current realities of race and racism. It challenges evangelical Christianity in particular to think more critically and constructively about race, ethnicity, migration, and mission in relation to white supremacy. Historical and contemporary perspectives from Africa and the African diaspora prompt fresh theological and missiological questions about place and identity. Native American and Latinx experiences of colonialism, migration, and hybridity inspire theologies and practices of shalom. And Asian and Asian American experiences of ethnicity and class generate transnational resources for responding to the challenge of systemic injustice. With their call for practical resistance to the Western whiteness project, the perspectives in this volume can revitalize a vision of racial justice and peace in the body of Christ. -- Publisher's description.

Contents:

Introduction: Race and missiology in glocal perspective / Johnny Ram̕rez-Johnson and Love L. Sechrest

Part I: Race and place at the dawn of modernity

Can white people be saved? Reflections on the relationship of missions and whiteness / Willie James Jennings

Decolonizing salvation / Andrea Smith

Part II: Race and the colonial enterprise

Christian debates on race, theology, and mission in India / Daniel Jeyaraj

Ambivalent modalities: mission, race, and the African factor / Akintunde Akinade with Clifton R. Clarke

Part III: Race and mission to Latin America

Siempre lo mismo: theology, rhetoric, and broken praxis / Elizabeth Conde-Frazier

Constructing race in Puerto Rico: the colonial legacy of Christianity and empires, 1510- 910 / Angel D. Santiago-Vendrell

Part IV: Race in North America between and beyond black-and-white

The end of "mission": Christian witness and the decentering of white identity / Andrew T. Draper

Community, mission, and race: a missiological meaning of martin Luther King Jr.'s beloved community for racial relationships and identity politics / Hak Joon Lee

"The spirit of god was hovering over the waters": pressing past racialization in the decolonial missionary context; or, why Asian American Christians should give up their spots at Harvard / Jonathan Tran

Part V: Scriptural reconsiderations and ethnoracial hermeneutics

Intercultural communication skills for a missiology of interdependent mutuality / Johnny Ram̕rez-Johnson

"Humbled among the nations": Matthew 15:21-28 in antiracist womanist missiological engagement / Love L. Sechrest

Conclusion: Mission after colonialism and whiteness: the pentecost witness of the "perpetual foreigner" for the third millennium / Amos Yong

Epilogue: a letter from the archdemon of racialization to her angels in the United States / Erin Dufault-Hunter.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Can "white" people be saved?

ISBN:

9780830851041

0830851046

OCLC:

1050140701