
When Heaven and Earth Collide
Racism, Southern Evangelicals, and the Better Way of Jesus
Alan Cross(Author)
NewSouth Books (Publisher)
Published on 1. November 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-1-60306-350-0 (ISBN)
Description
When Heaven and Earth Collide is an investigation into what went wrong in the American South in regard to race and religion-and how things can be and are being made right. Why, in a land filled with Christian churches, was there such racial oppression and division? Why didn't white evangelicals do more to bring racial reconciliation to the South during the 19th and 20th centuries? These questions are asked and answered through an exploration of history, politics, economics, philosophy, and social and theological studies that uncovers the hidden impetus behind racism and demonstrates how we can still make many of the same errors today-just perhaps in different ways. The investigation finally leads us in hopeful directions involving how to live out the better way of Jesus with an eye on heaven in a world still burdened and broken under the sins of the past.
Reviews / Votes
This is a necessary book by a man steeped in the white evangelical tradition but willing to expose what went wrong there. It would be easy for Christians in a different tradition to call down shame on those white Southerners for their failures, but every tradition has its own failures that need this kind of intense scrutiny so they don't continue into the future. -- Bill Tammeus * Bill's "Faith Matters" Blog *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Athens
United States
Publishing group
University of Georgia Press
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
499 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-60306-350-0 (9781603063500)
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Alan Cross | William Dwight McKissic Sr.
When Heaven and Earth Collide
Racism, Southern Evangelicals, and the Better Way of Jesus
E-Book
11/2014
NewSouth Books
€26.49
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Persons
ALAN CROSS is pastor of Gateway Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, where he has served on staff since 2000. A Southern native, he was born in New Orleans and grew up in Picayune, Mississippi. He earned an education degree at Mississippi State University and a master's of divinity from Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary in Mill Valley, California, where he focused on intercultural studies and urban ministry.