Who would like to write a book on racism whose target audience is white American evangelicals? I prefer the terms ethnocentric and oppression over the term racism. They are more accurate and precise biblical terms.
Evangelicals have had a large presence in the U.S. for the last 400 years; at the same time, ethnocentrism and oppression have run rampant and are still very much part and parcel of American culture today. Have evangelicals been a part of the problem? Don't evangelicals have the biblical knowledge to solve the ongoing problem? Do white evangelicals prefer to maintain white superiority and white privilege over white repentance and restitution? Are white evangelicals less ethnocentric and oppressive than the rest of the population????
Chapter One: Are northerns as racist as southerners?
Chapter Two: Oppression in the OT
Chapter Three: Oppression in the NT
Chapter Four: Justice in the OT
Chapter Five: Justice in the NT
Chapter Six: The Spirit, the Kingdom and Justice
Chapter Seven: 2016---Ethnocentrism and Oppression Still Widespread
Chapter Eight: Wesleyan: Love, but not Justice?
Chapter Nine:
Chapter Ten:
Thesis: Evangelicals in the North are as racist as those in the South. A few generations earlier, northerners owned slaves and were dominant in the slave trade. They finally ended both the slave trade and slavery, but they did not give up ethnocentrism and oppression. They did not repent and restitute. Dwight L. Moody was a racist; he neglected justice and the love of God. Lincoln was also a racist as were most white evangelical abolitionists who did not want freed black slaves to move north and live with them.
Example: There has been a fuss made over the presence of a Confederate flag in the stained glass windows of the Washington National Cathedral. There has been no fuss made over the presence of two American flags in nearby windows. More social evil has been done under the Stars and Stripes than under the Confederate flag. Why this discrepancy?
Six must read books: Cotton and Race in the Making of America, Inheriting the [Slave] Trade, Reforging the White Republic, The New Jim Crow, Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome, God So Loved the Third World: The Biblical Vocabulary for Oppression.
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