Reconstructing the Gospel Finding Freedom from Slaveholder Religion by Jonathan Wilsonhartgrove

Reconstructing the Gospel Finding Freedom from Slaveholder Religion by Jonathan Wilsonhartgrove

• 2018 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award Finalists - Multicultural

I am a man torn in two. And the gospel I inherited is divided. Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove grew up in the Bible Belt in the American South as a faithful church-going Christian. But he gradually came to realize that the gospel his Christianity proclaimed was not good news for everybody. The same Christianity that sang, Amazing grace, how sweet the sound also perpetuated racial injustice and white supremacy in the name of Jesus. His Christianity, he discovered, was the religion of the slaveholder. Just as Reconstruction after the Civil War worked to repair a desperately broken society, our compromised Christianity requires a spiritual reconstruction that undoes the injustices of the past. Wilson-Hartgrove traces his journey from the religion of the slaveholder to the Christianity of Christ. Reconstructing the gospel requires facing the pain of the past and present, from racial blindness to systemic abuses of power. Grappling seriously with troubling history and theology, Wilson-Hartgrove recovers the subversiveness of the gospel that sustained the church through centuries of slavery and oppression, from the civil rights era to the Black Lives Matter movement and beyond. When the gospel is reconstructed, freedom rings for both individuals and society as a whole. Discover how Jesus continues to save us from ourselves and each other, to repair the breach and heal our land.

Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove is an associate minister at St. Paul's Episcopal Church. Johns Baptist Church is a Baptist church in New York City. Jonathan, a Duke Divinity School alumnus, is involved in Durham, North Carolina's reconciliation efforts, leads the School for Conversion (newmonasticism.org), and is a sought-after lecturer and author of several publications. Jonathan lives with his wife, Leah, their son, JaiMichael, daughter, Nora Ann, and other friends at the Rutba House, a new monastic community that prays, eats, and lives together, welcoming neighbors and the needy. Visit jonathanwilsonhartgrove.com for additional information.

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ISBN 13	9780830845347
ISBN 10	0830845348
Title	Reconstructing the Gospel Finding Freedom from Slaveholder Religion
Author	Jonathan Wilson–hartgrov
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	InterVarsity Press
Year published	2018-03-13
Number of pages	192
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