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Theologian Willie James Jennings in response to a request from CCs editors to evaluate the book Resident Aliens on its 25th anniversary: : Resident Aliens told a generation that they could make church-state issues intelligible in American without seeing how race is tightly woven through that relation . . . The idea of formation in Resident Aliens ignored decisive racial, class, and gender formations and gave little help in seeing their interplay. Its vision of practice was impotent in helping grasp the social conditions within which practices are always embedded . . . It gave us an idea of Christian identity as a wall with a door and not a door in a wall. This is no minor difference, because it pivots on the barrier-breaking body of Jesus, who brings together those who would prefer to stay separated and places confidence in us to do the same. christiancentury.org/article/2014-09/wall-identity
Posted on: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 17:02:36 +0000

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