{"product_id":"decolonizing-christianity-becoming-badass-believers-9780802878472","title":"Decolonizing Christianity: Becoming Badass Believers","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"How curiously different is this white God from the one preached by Jesus who understood faithfulness by how we treat the hungry and thirsty, the naked and alien, the incarcerated and infirm. This white God of empire may be appropriate for global conquerors who benefit from all that has been stolen and through the labor of all those defined as inferior; but such a deity can never be the God of the conquered.\"\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEchoing James Cone's 1970 assertion that white Christianity is a satanic heresy, Miguel De La Torre argues that whiteness has desecrated the message of Jesus. In a scathing indictment, he describes how white American Christians have aligned themselves with the oppressors who subjugate the \"least of these\"--those who have been systemically marginalized because of their race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status--and, in overwhelming numbers, elected and supported an antichrist as president who has brought the bigotry ingrained in American society out into the open. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith this follow-up to his earlier \u003ci\u003eBurying White Privilege\u003c\/i\u003e, De La Torre prophetically outlines how we need to decolonize Christianity and reclaim its revolutionary, badass message. Timid white liberalism is not the answer for De La Torre--only another form of complicity. Working from the parable of the sheep and the goats in the Gospel of Matthew, he calls for unapologetic solidarity with the sheep and an unequivocal rejection of the false, idolatrous Christianity of whiteness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMiguel A. De La Torre\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of social ethics and Latinx studies at the Iliff School of Theology in Denver. Awarded the 2020 Excellence in Teaching Award by the American Academy of Religion, he has published over thirty-five books, including \u003ci\u003eBurying White Privilege: Resurrecting a Badass Christianity\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eReading the Bible from the Margins\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50482064883986,"sku":"9780802878472","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8df39f0e-d3b2-4a5d-8b88-f750b4df060b.jpg?v=1730339553","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/decolonizing-christianity-becoming-badass-believers-9780802878472","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}