White Jesus

Author : Alexander Jun
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781433157691
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book White Jesus written by Alexander Jun and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In White Jesus: The Architecture of Racism in Religion and Education, White Jesus is conceived as a socially constructed apparatus--a mythology that animates the architecture of salvation--that operates stealthily as a veneer for patriarchal White supremacist, capitalist, and imperialist sociopolitical, cultural, and economic agendas. White Jesus was constructed by combining empire, colorism, racism, education, and religion; the by-product is a distortion that reproduces violence in epistemic and physical ways. The authors distinguish White Jesus from Jesus of the Gospels, the one whose life, death, and resurrection demands sacrificial love as a response--a love ethic. White Jesus is a fraudulent scheme that many devotees of Jesus of Bethlehem naively fell for. This book is about naming the lies, reclaiming the person of Jesus, and reasserting a vision of power that locates Jesus of the Gospels in solidarity with the easily disposed. The catalytic, animating, and life-altering power of the cross of Jesus is enough to subdue White Jesus and his patronage. White Jesus can be used in a variety of academic disciplines, including education, religion, sociology, and cultural studies. Furthermore, the book will be useful for Christian institutions working to evaluate the images and ideologies of Jesus that shape their biblical ethics, as well as churches in the U.S. that are invested in breaking the mold of homogeneity, civil religion, and uncoupling commitments to patriotism from loyalty to one Kingdom. Educational institutions and religious organizations that are committed to combining justice and diversity efforts with a Jesus ethic will find White Jesus to be a compelling primer.

Author : L. Michael White
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061985376
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scripting Jesus written by L. Michael White and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Scripting Jesus, Michael White, famed scholar of early Christian history, reveals how the gospel stories of Jesus were never meant to be straightforward historical accounts, but rather were scripted and honed as performance pieces for four different audiences with four different theological agendas. As he did as a featured presenter in two award-winning PBS Frontline documentaries (“From Jesus to Christ” and “Apocalypse!”), White engagingly explains the significance of some lesser-known aspects of The New Testament; in this case, the development of the stories of Jesus—including how the gospel writers differed from one another on facts, points of view, and goals. Readers of Elaine Pagels, Marcus Borg, John Dominic Crossan, and Bart Ehrman will find much to ponder in Scripting Jesus.

Author : Ellen Gould White
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3849646297
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Story Of Jesus written by Ellen Gould White and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 2014-11-03 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Story Of Jesus is Ellen Gould White's adaptation of her own work Christ Our Saviour for a children's audience. This beautiful narrative of Jesus' life on earth was prepared by the author's son while he was working with mostly illiterate slaves in the South of the United States. It is wonderful to read and tell, even for persons with a limited vocabulary. Some of the chapters are: Chapter 1 - The Birth of Jesus Chapter 2 - Jesus Presented in the Temple Chapter 3 - The Visit of the Wise Men Chapter 4 - The Flight Into Egypt Chapter 5 - Child Life of Jesus Chapter 6 - Days of Conflict Chapter 7 - The Baptism Chapter 8 - The Temptation Chapter 9 - Early Ministry Chapter 10 - Teachings of Christ Chapter 11 - Sabbathkeeping Chapter 12 - The Good Shepherd Chapter 13 - Riding Into Jerusalem Chapter 14 - "Take These Things Hence" Chapter 15 - At the Passover Supper ... and much more ...

Author : Kristin Kobes Du Mez
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1631495747
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation written by Kristin Kobes Du Mez and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-23 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The “paradigm-influencing” book (Christianity Today) that is fundamentally transforming our understanding of white evangelicalism in America. Jesus and John Wayne is a sweeping, revisionist history of the last seventy-five years of white evangelicalism, revealing how evangelicals have worked to replace the Jesus of the Gospels with an idol of rugged masculinity and Christian nationalism—or in the words of one modern chaplain, with “a spiritual badass.” As acclaimed scholar Kristin Du Mez explains, the key to understanding this transformation is to recognize the centrality of popular culture in contemporary American evangelicalism. Many of today’s evangelicals might not be theologically astute, but they know their VeggieTales, they’ve read John Eldredge’s Wild at Heart, and they learned about purity before they learned about sex—and they have a silver ring to prove it. Evangelical books, films, music, clothing, and merchandise shape the beliefs of millions. And evangelical culture is teeming with muscular heroes—mythical warriors and rugged soldiers, men like Oliver North, Ronald Reagan, Mel Gibson, and the Duck Dynasty clan, who assert white masculine power in defense of “Christian America.” Chief among these evangelical legends is John Wayne, an icon of a lost time when men were uncowed by political correctness, unafraid to tell it like it was, and did what needed to be done. Challenging the commonly held assumption that the “moral majority” backed Donald Trump in 2016 and 2020 for purely pragmatic reasons, Du Mez reveals that Trump in fact represented the fulfillment, rather than the betrayal, of white evangelicals’ most deeply held values: patriarchy, authoritarian rule, aggressive foreign policy, fear of Islam, ambivalence toward #MeToo, and opposition to Black Lives Matter and the LGBTQ community. A much-needed reexamination of perhaps the most influential subculture in this country, Jesus and John Wayne shows that, far from adhering to biblical principles, modern white evangelicals have remade their faith, with enduring consequences for all Americans.

Author : Sheri Faye Rosendahl
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 1611648971
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Not Your White Jesus written by Sheri Faye Rosendahl and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jesus is not white. Jesus is not American. Jesus does not want to make America great. While many of us grew up looking at gleaming portraits of Jesus with blond, flowing hair and hearing sermons reaffirming that we have the answers to save a fallen world, the real Jesusa Middle Eastern Jew preaching radical, humble, self-emptying lovecalls us to a different life. As we see oppression and hate run rampant in our nation, it's as if Christianity has lost sight of the red letters altogether. Sheri Faye Rosendahl takes a look at important social issues in our society, the responses of American Christians, and the true ways behind the red letters. Not Your White Jesus addresses the need to reexamine the true ways of Jesus that we find clearly in the red letters, enabling readers to discover what it truly means to follow the ways of Jesus in contrast to following the ways of the American Christian elite.

Author : Edward J. Blum
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807835722
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Color of Christ written by Edward J. Blum and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the dynamic nature of Christ worship in the U.S., addressing how his image has been visually remade to champion the causes of white supremacists and civil rights leaders alike, and why the idea of a white Christ has endured.

Author : Ellen G. White
Publisher : Review and Herald Pub Assoc
ISBN 13 : 9780828018357
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To Be Like Jesus written by Ellen G. White and published by Review and Herald Pub Assoc. This book was released on 2004 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emphasizing a different theme each month, this daily devotional calls us into a deeper fellowship with God and equips us for the journey. Each reading is a moment with the master--another step in an ever-sweeter journey with Jesus.

Author : Joan E. Taylor
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567671496
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Did Jesus Look Like? written by Joan E. Taylor and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jesus Christ is arguably the most famous man who ever lived. His image adorns countless churches, icons, and paintings. He is the subject of millions of statues, sculptures, devotional objects and works of art. Everyone can conjure an image of Jesus: usually as a handsome, white man with flowing locks and pristine linen robes. But what did Jesus really look like? Is our popular image of Jesus overly westernized and untrue to historical reality? This question continues to fascinate. Leading Christian Origins scholar Joan E. Taylor surveys the historical evidence, and the prevalent image of Jesus in art and culture, to suggest an entirely different vision of this most famous of men. He may even have had short hair.

Author : Patrick Gilger
Publisher : Orbis Books
ISBN 13 : 1608334481
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jesuit Post written by Patrick Gilger and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2014-03-31 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawn from the eponymous blog essays on faith, culture, and lives of Christian discipleship by young Jesuit priests and seminarians for young adult seekers.

Author : Matthew J. White
Publisher : Verve Christian Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781427612885
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Married to Jesus written by Matthew J. White and published by Verve Christian Publishing. This book was released on 2007-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are called to be imitators of Christ, in life and in marriage. Becoming more like Jesus in your marriage involves thinking less of yourself and more of your spouse. As you strive to implement the characteristics of Jesus Christ ¿ humility, servanthood, honesty, forgiveness ¿ into your marriage, it won¿t be easy. But, "Married to Jesus" explores the benefits of becoming more like Christ in your marriage, offering real-life experiences combined with a biblical foundation. As you gain a deeper understanding of God¿s ideal for marriage, you¿ll begin to see the positive difference in your own marriage ¿ and others will see it, too.