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Redeeming Mulatto - A Theology of Race and Christian Hybridity (Paperback)
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Redeeming Mulatto - A Theology of Race and Christian Hybridity (Paperback)
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The theological attempts to understand Christ's body have either
focused on ""philosophical"" claims about Jesus' identity or on
""contextual"" rebuttals - on a culturally transcendent,
disembodied Jesus of the creeds or on a Jesus of color who rescues
and saves a particular people because of embodied particularity.
But neither of these two attempts has accounted for the world as it
is, a world of mixed race, of hybridity, of cultural and racial
intermixing. By not understanding the true theological problem,
that we live in a mulatto world, the right question has not been
posed: How can Christ save this mixed world? The answer, Brian
Bantum shows, is in the mulattoness of Jesus' own body, which is
simultaneously fully God and fully human. In Redeeming Mulatto,
Bantum reconciles the particular with the transcendent to account
for the world as it is: mixed. He 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.
Bantum offers a theology that challenges people to imagine
themselves inside their bodies, changed and something new, but also
not without remnants of the old. His theology is one for all
people, offered through the lens of a particular people, not for
individual possession but for redemption and transformation into
something new.
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