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Dietrich Bonhoeffer publicly confronted Nazism and anti-Semitic
racism in Hitler's Germany. The Reich's political ideology, when
mixed with theology of the German Christian movement, turned Jesus
into a divine representation of the ideal, racially pure Aryan and
allowed race-hate to become part of Germany's religious life.
Bonhoeffer provided a Christian response to Nazi atrocities.In this
book author Reggie L. Williams follows Bonhoeffer as he defies
Germany with Harlem's black Jesus. The Christology Bonhoeffer
learned in Harlem's churches featured a black Christ who suffered
with African Americans in their struggle against systemic injustice
and racial violence-and then resisted. In the pews of the
Abyssinian Baptist Church, under the leadership of Adam Clayton
Powell, Sr., Bonhoeffer absorbed the Christianity of the Harlem
Renaissance. This Christianity included a Jesus who stands with the
oppressed rather than joins the oppressors and a theology that
challenges the way God can be used to underwrite a union of race
and religion. Now featuring a foreword from world-renowned
Bonhoeffer scholar Ferdinand Schlingensiepen as well as multiple
revisions and corrections, Bonhoeffer's Black Jesus argues that the
black American narrative led Dietrich Bonhoeffer to the truth that
obedience to Jesus requires concrete historical action. This ethic
of resistance not only indicted the church of the German Volk, but
also continues to shape the nature of Christian discipleship today.
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