God, Race, and History: Liberating Providence
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God, Race, and History: Liberating Providence

God, Race, and History: Liberating Providence

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Matt R. Jantzen (Author)  

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In crafting racial visions of the modern world, European thinkers appropriated the Christian doctrine of providence, constructing the idea of European humanity's rule over the globe on the model of God's rule over the universe. As a powerful ordering theory of the relationship between God and creation, time and space, self and other, the doctrine served as an intellectual framework for the theorization of whiteness, as the male European subject replaced Jesus Christ as the human being at the center of world history. Through an analysis of the work of G.W.F. Hegel, Karl Barth, and James H. Cone, God, Race, and History examines this subversion of the Christian doctrine of providence, as well as subsequent attempts within modern Protestant theology to liberate the doctrine from its captivity to whiteness. It then develops a constructive political theology of providence in conversation with Delores S. Williams and M. Shawn Copeland, discerning Jesus Christ at work through the Holy Spirit in the struggles of ordinary, overlooked, and oppressed human creatures to survive and to carve out a flourishing life for themselves, their communities, and their world.
Matt R. Jantzen is visiting assistant professor of ministry studies and director of the Emmaus Scholars Program at Hope College.
  • Contributor: Matt R. Jantzen
  • Imprint: Lexington Books
  • ISBN13: 9781793619570
  • Number of Pages: 224
  • Packaged Dimensions: 154x230x17mm
  • Packaged Weight: 313
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: Lexington Books
  • Release Date: 2022-08-22
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: Matt R. Jantzen is visiting assistant professor of ministry studies and director of the Emmaus Scholars Program at Hope College.

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