Name: Reparations: A Christian Call for Repentance and Repair
ISBN: 9781587435980

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Reparations: A Christian Call for Repentance and Repair

Duke L. Kwon

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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

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.

"Kwon and Thompson's eloquent reasoning will help Christians broaden their understanding of the contemporary conversation over reparations."--Publishers Weekly

Book Details

Publisher: Brazos Press
Publish Date: Nov 1st, 2022
Pages: 256
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 8.97in - 6.08in - 0.66in - 0.81lb
EAN: 9781587435980
Categories: • Christian Living - Social Issues• Race & Ethnic Relations• Ethics

About the Author

Kwon, Duke L.: - Duke L. Kwon (MDiv, ThM, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary) is the lead pastor at Grace Meridian Hill, a neighborhood congregation in the Grace DC Network committed to building cross-cultural community in Washington, DC. Kwon is active in public conversations around race, equity, and racial repair in the American church, and he lectures on these topics around the country. His work has appeared in the Washington Post, Christianity Today, and The Witness.

Thompson, Gregory: - Gregory Thompson (PhD, University of Virginia) is a pastor, scholar, artist, and producer whose work focuses on race and equity in the United States. He serves as executive director of Voices Underground (an initiative to build a national memorial to the Underground Railroad outside of Philadelphia), research fellow in African American heritage at Lincoln University (Historically Black College and University), and visiting theologian for mission at Grace Mosaic Church in Washington, DC. He is also the cocreator of Union: The Musical, a soul and hip-hop-based musical about the 1968 sanitation workers' strike. Thompson lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.

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Congrats to @dukekwondc and @_wgthompson, whose book Reparations: A Christian Call for Repentance and Repair (@BrazosPress ) is one of our Best Books of 2021!!! It's featured today on our Advent calendar of Best Books: https://englewoodreview.org/dec-13-duke-kwon-gregory-thompson-reparations-advent-calendar/

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Duke Kwon: Reparations https://t.co/Ao3KLkF1xJ via @YouTube I can actually listen to a sermon like this...finally, a preacher speaking truth...

During the last two weeks, I read the book "Reparations" by @dukekwondc and @_wgthompson. I also read, and re-read, the review of that book by @RevKevDeYoung. A few thoughts: 🧵

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What people are saying

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3 years

The leading book news / reviews outlet for Christian readers. Will mostly be using Threads now. Follow us there @ ERBooks (YES the tag is different!)

Married w/4 children, Native American (Keetoowah), Spiritual, farmer, professor, activist, writer, Ph.D. Intercultural Studies

Duke Kwon: Reparations https://t.co/Ao3KLkF1xJ via @YouTube I can actually listen to a sermon like this...finally, a preacher speaking truth...

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