{"product_id":"loving-through-enmity-healing-the-broken-heart-of-christian-antiracist-work-9781506497167","title":"Loving through Enmity: Healing the Broken Heart of Christian Antiracist Work","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLoving through Enmity\u003c\/i\u003e responds to the failure of US Christian antiracist work to translate love of the enemy into meaningful societal transformation. Beginning with an analysis of the racial enmity that is fundamental to white supremacy, Wickware clarifies an oft-elided distinction between private and structural enmity. While systemic opposition of interests between white and BIPOC Christians is the core enmity at play in white supremacy, Christian antiracist work too often centers individual slights, struggles, and forgiveness.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCentering structural enmity, Wickware explores how white supremacy produces and circulates a distorted love that takes as its goal the happiness of white people and demands sacrifice from those who challenge white happiness through the pursuit of mutuality. As a step toward articulating a more faithful love, he offers an account of Black love as a transformative, politically powerful emotion directed toward mutual care.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBuilding on that account of Black love, Wickware reimagines divine power and love in terms of God's power to sustain connection, holy need for relationship with creation, and desire for creaturely thriving. Ultimately, faithful love of the enemy mirrors God's love and involves embracing our need for those whose interests are structurally opposed to ours under the conditions of white supremacy, engaging in mutual aid, and committing to accountability toward one another's need for self-love. Scholars and ministers alike will benefit from Wickware's insightful conclusions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWickware, Marvin E.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMarvin E. Wickware, Jr.\u003c\/strong\u003e is assistant professor of church and society and ethics at Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, where he has taught since earning his PhD in religion from Duke University in 2018. Wickware is a Black theologian whose research addresses the intersections of identity, emotions, politics, and theology.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fortress Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51322038780178,"sku":"9781506497167","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_89730bae-f71e-45f2-9491-4ab6ece9b27c.jpg?v=1748600880","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/loving-through-enmity-healing-the-broken-heart-of-christian-antiracist-work-9781506497167","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}