The Christian Imagination: Theology and the Origins of Race (PDF)
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- Synopsis
- Why has Christianity, a religion premised upon neighborly love, failed in its attempts to heal social divisions? In this ambitious and wide-ranging work, Willie James Jennings delves deep into the late medieval soil in which the modern Christian imagination grew, to reveal how Christianity’s highly refined process of socialization has inadvertently created and maintained segregated societies. A probing study of the cultural fragmentation—social, spatial, and racial—that took root in the Western mind, this book shows how Christianity has consistently forged Christian nations rather than encouraging genuine communion between disparate groups and individuals.
- Copyright:
- 2010
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- ISBN-13:
- 9780300152111
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- Date of Addition:
- 01/11/21
- Copyrighted By:
- Yale University
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Religion and Spirituality
- Submitted By:
- Teresa Battey
- Proofread By:
- Teresa Battey
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.