Disunity in Christ: Uncovering the Hidden Forces that Keep Us Apart by
Despite Jesus' prayer that all Christians "be one," divisions have been epidemic in the body of Christ from the beginning to the present. Though we may think we know why this happens, Christena Cleveland says we probably don't. In this eye-opening book, learn the hidden reasons behind conflict and divisions.
Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God by
An attempt to take seriously social and theological questions raised by stories of violence against black people in America, and to answer black church people's questions of justice and faith in response to the call of God. But Kelly Brown Douglas also brings another significant interpretative lens to this text: that of a mother.
If God Still Breathes, Why Can't I?: Black Lives Matter and Biblical Authority by
Drawing from her perspective as a Womanist New Testament scholar, Dr. Parker describes how she learned to deconstruct the conflation of biblical authority with the doctrines of inerrancy and infallibility.
Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope (Online) by
At a time in which some within the African American community are questioning the place of the Christian faith in the struggle for justice, New Testament scholar McCaulley argues that reading Scripture from the perspective of Black church tradition is invaluable for connecting with a rich faith history and addressing the urgent issues of our times.
The Christian Imagination: Theology and the Origins of Race (Online) by
Touching on issues of slavery, geography, Native American history, Jewish-Christian relations, literacy, and translation, Jennings shows how the loss of land and the supersessionist ideas behind the Christian missionary movement are both deeply implicated in the invention of race.
Race: A Theological Account (Online) by
Argues that black theology's intellectual impoverishment in the Church and the academy is the result of its theologically shaky presuppositions, which are based largely on liberal Protestant convictions. He critiques the work of such noted scholars as Albert Raboteau, Charles Long and James Cone, and argues that black theology must rebuild itself on completely new theological foundations.
The Cross and the Lynching Tree (Online) by
Explores the cross and the lynching tree's interconnection in the history and souls of black folk from a theological perspective.
The Death of Race: Building a New Christianity in a Racial World (Online) by
Examines the question of race, but through the lens of our bodies and what our bodies mean in the midst of a complicated, racialized world, one that perpetually dehumanizes dark bodies, thereby rendering all of us less than God's intention.
Jesus and the Disinherited by
In this classic theological treatise, the acclaimed theologian and religious leader Howard Thurman (1900-1981) demonstrates how the Gospel may be read as a manual of resistance for the poor and disenfranchised.
Redeeming Mulatto: A Theology of Race and Christian Hybridity (Online) by
Constructs a remarkable new Christological vision of Christ as tragic mulatto--one who confronts the contrived delusions of racial purity and the violence of self-assertion and emerges from a "hybridity" of flesh and spirit, human and divine, calling humanity to a mulattic rebirth.
Disruptive Christian Ethics: When Racism and Women's Lives Matter by
This book brings to the fore the difficult realities of racism and the sexual violation of women. Traci West argues for a liberative method of Christian social ethics in which the discussion begins not with generic philosophical concepts but in the concrete realities of the lives of the socially and economically marginalized.
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