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Author Wilson-Hartgrove, Jonathan, 1980- author.

Title Reconstructing the Gospel : finding freedom from slaveholder religion / Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove ; foreword by William J. Barber II.

Publication Info. Downers Grove, Illinois : IVP Books, an imprint of InterVarsity Press, [2018]

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 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  277.3083 WILSON-HARTGROVE    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  277.3083 WIL    Check Shelf
Description 198 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-198).
Contents Part I: Slaveholder religion -- Christmas on the plantation -- Immoral majority -- Racial blindness -- Living in skin -- This is my body, broken -- A gilded cross in the public square -- Part II: The Christianity of Christ -- The other half of history -- Moral revival -- Having church -- Healing the heart -- Epilogue: A letter to my grandfather and my son.
Summary "'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 both for individuals and for society as a whole. Discover how Jesus continues to save us from ourselves and each other, to repair the breach and heal our land"-- Amazon.com.
Subject Liberty -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Racism -- United States.
Race relations -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
United States -- Race relations.
Liberty -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. (OCoLC)fst00997270
Race relations. (OCoLC)fst01086509
Race relations -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. (OCoLC)fst01086528
Racism. (OCoLC)fst01086616
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form Nonfiction.
Added Author Barber, William J., II, 1963- writer of foreword.
Other Form: Online version: Wilson-Hartgrove, Jonathan, 1980- Reconstructing the Gospel. Downers Grove : InterVarsity Press, 2018 9780830886487 (DLC) 2018009110
ISBN 9780830845347 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0830845348
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