| Burying White Privilege: Resurrecting a Badass Christianity Contributor(s): de la Torre, Miguel A. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0802876889 ISBN-13: 9780802876881 Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company OUR PRICE: $22.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Religion, Politics & State - Religion | Christian Living - Social Issues - Social Science | Discrimination & Race Relations |
| Dewey: 303.372 |
| LCCN: 2018035773 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.3" W x 7.1" (0.55 lbs) 168 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Short. Timely. Poignant. Pointed. Burying White Privilege is all of these and more. This is the book that everybody who cares about contemporary American Christianity will want to read. Many people wonder how white Christians could not only support Donald Trump for president but also rush to defend an accused child molester running for the US Senate. In a 2017 essay that went viral, Miguel A. De La Torre boldly proclaimed the death of Christianity at the hands of white evangelical nationalists. He continues sounding the death knell in this book. De La Torre argues that centuries of oppression and greed have effectively ruined evangelical Christianity in the United States. Believers and clerical leaders have killed it, choosing profits over prophets. The silence concerning--if not the doctrinal justification of--racism, classism, sexism, and homophobia has made white Christianity satanic. Prophetically calling Christian nationalists to repentance, De La Torre rescues the biblical Christ from the distorted Christ of white Christian imagination. |