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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.
Missiological Engagements charts interdisciplinary and innovative
trajectories in the history, theology, and practice of Christian
mission, featuring contributions by leading thinkers from both the
Euro-American West and the majority world whose missiological
scholarship bridges church, academy, and society.
Sechrest describes Pauline Christianity as a nascent ancient racial
group, drawing on a Jewish understanding of race in Second Temple
Judaism. With analysis of nearly five thousand Jewish and
non-Jewish passages about identity from around the turn of the era,
the models presented describe ancient Greek and Jewish ethnic and
racial identity. Further, these models become resources for
examining the racial character of Paul's self-identity and the
continuities and discontinuities between the three races in his
social world: Jews, Gentiles, and Christians. Using historical and
literary methods of exegesis for passages in the Pauline corpus,
Sechrest describes Paul as someone who was born a Jew, but who
later saw himself as a member of a different race. Analyzing
Christian identity in Galatians in terms of membership criteria,
membership indicia, and inter-group dynamics, a final section of
the book con trasts the portrait of Paul that emerges from this
study with those in Daniel Boyarin's A Radical Jew: Paul and the
Politics of Identity and Brad Braxton's No Longer Slaves: Galatians
and African American Experience. This section engages all three of
these descriptions of community and identity, and illuminates the
problems and opportunities contained in a modern appropriation of a
racial construction of Christian identity.
Sechrest describes Pauline Christianity as a nascent ancient racial
group, drawing on a Jewish understanding of race in Second Temple
Judaism. With analysis of nearly five thousand Jewish and
non-Jewish passages about identity from around the turn of the era,
the models presented describe ancient Greek and Jewish ethnic and
racial identity. Further, these models become resources for
examining the racial character of Paul's self-identity and the
continuities and discontinuities between the three races in his
social world: Jews, Gentiles, and Christians/ Using historical and
literary methods of exegesis for passages in the Pauline corpus,
Sechrest describes Paul as someone who was born a Jew, but who
later saw himself as a member of a different race. Analyzing
Christian identity in Galatians in terms of membership criteria,
membership indicia, and inter-group dynamics, a final section of
the book con-trasts the portrait of Paul that emerges from this
study with those in Daniel Boyarin's "A Radical Jew: Paul and the
Politics of Identity" and Brad Braxton's "No Longer Slaves:
Galatians and African American Experience". This section engages
all three of these descriptions of community and identity, and
illuminates the problems and opportunities contained in a modern
appropriation of a racial construction of Christian identity.
Formerly the "Journal for the Study of the New Testament
Supplement", a book series that explores the many aspects of New
Testament study including historical perspectives,
social-scientific and literary theory, and theological, cultural
and contextual approaches. "The Early Christianity in Context"
series, a part of "JSNTS", examines the birth and development of
early Christianity up to the end of the third century CE. The
series places Christianity in its social, cultural, political and
economic context. European Seminar on Christian Origins and
"Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus Supplement" are also
part of "JSNTS".
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