Bonhoeffer's Black Jesus: Harlem Renaissance Theology and an Ethic of Resistance by Reggie L. Williams

Bonhoeffer's Black Jesus: Harlem Renaissance Theology and an Ethic of Resistance

Reggie L. Williams

184 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction race religion challenging informative reflective slow-paced

Description

Dietrich Bonhoeffer publicly confronted Nazism and anti-Semitic racism in Hitler's Germany. The Reich's political ideology, when mixed with theology of the German Christian movement, turned Jesus into a divine representation of the ideal, racially...

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reflective 85%
challenging 57%
inspiring 42%
hopeful 28%
adventurous 14%
emotional 14%
sad 14%

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medium 42%

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