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Unsettling Truths - The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery (Paperback)
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Unsettling Truths - The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery (Paperback)
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Loot Price R445
Discovery Miles 4 450
You Save R89 (17%)
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ECPA Top Shelf Book Cover Award American Society of Missiology Book
Award Publishers Weekly starred review You cannot discover lands
already inhabited. Injustice has plagued American society for
centuries. And we cannot move toward being a more just nation
without understanding the root causes that have shaped our culture
and institutions. In this prophetic blend of history, theology, and
cultural commentary, Mark Charles and Soong-Chan Rah reveal the
far-reaching, damaging effects of the "Doctrine of Discovery." In
the fifteenth century, official church edicts gave Christian
explorers the right to claim territories they "discovered." This
was institutionalized as an implicit national framework that
justifies American triumphalism, white supremacy, and ongoing
injustices. The result is that the dominant culture idealizes a
history of discovery, opportunity, expansion, and equality, while
minority communities have been traumatized by colonization,
slavery, segregation, and dehumanization. Healing begins when
deeply entrenched beliefs are unsettled. Charles and Rah aim to
recover a common memory and shared understanding of where we have
been and where we are going. As other nations have instituted truth
and reconciliation commissions, so do the authors call our nation
and churches to a truth-telling that will expose past injustices
and open the door to conciliation and true community.
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