
Subversive Witness
Scripture's Call to Leverage Privilege
Dominique DuBois Gilliard(Author)
Zondervan (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 30. September 2021
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-0-310-12403-0 (ISBN)
Description
Learn to leverage privilege.
Privilege is a social consequence of our unwillingness to reckon with and turn from sin. But properly stewarded, it can help us see and participate in God's inbreaking kingdom. Scripture repeatedly affirms that privilege is real and declares that, rather than exploiting it for selfish gain or feeling immobilized by it, Christians have a responsibility to leverage it.
Subversive Witness asks us to grapple with privilege, indifference, and systemic sin in new ways by using biblical examples to reveal the complex nature of privilege and Christians' responsibility in stewarding it well.
Dominique DuBois Gilliard highlights several people in the Bible who understood this kingdom call. Through their stories, you will discover how to leverage privilege to:
Resist Sin
Stand in Solidarity with the Oppressed
Birth Liberation
Create Systemic Change
Proclaim the Good News
Generate Social Transformation
By embodying Scripture's subversive call to leverage--and at times forsake--privilege, readers will learn to love their neighbors sacrificially, enact systemic change, and grow more Christlike as citizens of God's kingdom.
Privilege is a social consequence of our unwillingness to reckon with and turn from sin. But properly stewarded, it can help us see and participate in God's inbreaking kingdom. Scripture repeatedly affirms that privilege is real and declares that, rather than exploiting it for selfish gain or feeling immobilized by it, Christians have a responsibility to leverage it.
Subversive Witness asks us to grapple with privilege, indifference, and systemic sin in new ways by using biblical examples to reveal the complex nature of privilege and Christians' responsibility in stewarding it well.
Dominique DuBois Gilliard highlights several people in the Bible who understood this kingdom call. Through their stories, you will discover how to leverage privilege to:
Resist Sin
Stand in Solidarity with the Oppressed
Birth Liberation
Create Systemic Change
Proclaim the Good News
Generate Social Transformation
By embodying Scripture's subversive call to leverage--and at times forsake--privilege, readers will learn to love their neighbors sacrificially, enact systemic change, and grow more Christlike as citizens of God's kingdom.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Grand Rapids
United States
Product notice
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 221 mm
Width: 151 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
402 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-310-12403-0 (9780310124030)
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Dominique DuBois Gilliard is the Director of Racial Righteousness and Reconciliation for the Evangelical Covenant Church. An ordained minister, Gilliard has served in pastoral ministry in Atlanta, Chicago, and Oakland. Gilliard also serves on the board of directors for the Christian Community Development Association.
He is the author of Rethinking Incarceration: Advocating for Justice that Restores, which won the 2018 InterVarsity Press Readers' Choice Award and was named one of Outreach Magazine's 2019 Outreach Resources of the Year - Social Issues / Justice.
He is the author of Rethinking Incarceration: Advocating for Justice that Restores, which won the 2018 InterVarsity Press Readers' Choice Award and was named one of Outreach Magazine's 2019 Outreach Resources of the Year - Social Issues / Justice.