Christianity Today **2022 Book Award Winner (Politics & Public
Life)
Outreach** **2022 Resource of the Year (Social Issues and Justice)
Foreword** **INDIES 2021 Finalist for Religion
**"Kwon and Thompson's eloquent reasoning will help Christians broaden
their understanding of the contemporary conversation over
reparations."--***Publishers Weekly
***"A thoughtful approach to a vital topic."--**Library Journal
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Christians are awakening to the legacy of racism in America like never
before. While public conversations regarding the realities of racial
division and inequalities have surged in recent years, so has the public
outcry to work toward the long-awaited healing of these wounds. But
American Christianity, with its tendency to view the ministry of
reconciliation as its sole response to racial injustice, and its
isolation from those who labor most diligently to address these things,
is underequipped to offer solutions. Because of this, the church needs a
new perspective on its responsibility for the deep racial brokenness at
the heart of American culture and on what it can do to repair that
brokenness.
This book makes a compelling historical and theological case for the
church's obligation to provide reparations for the oppression of African
Americans. Duke Kwon and Gregory Thompson articulate the church's
responsibility for its promotion and preservation of white supremacy
throughout history, investigate the Bible's call to repair our racial
brokenness, and offer a vision for the work of reparation at the local
level. They lead readers toward a moral imagination that views
reparations as a long-overdue and necessary step in our collective
journey toward healing and wholeness.
Christians are awakening to the legacy of racism in America like never
before. Reparations explores the church's responsibility for the deep
racial brokenness at the heart of American culture, investigates the
Bible's call to repair it, and offers a vision for the work of
reparation at the local level. The authors lead readers toward a moral
imagination that views reparations as a long-overdue and necessary step
in our collective journey toward healing and wholeness.
This book won a Christianity Today 2022 Book Award (Politics & Public
Life) and an Outreach 2022 Resource of the Year Award (Social Issues
and Justice). It was also a Foreword INDIES 2021 Finalist for
Religion.
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**"Kwon and Thompson's eloquent reasoning will help Christians broaden
their understanding of the contemporary conversation over
reparations."--Publishers Weekly