Can "White" People Be Saved?: Triangulating Race, Theology, and Mission (Missiological Engagements)

No one is born white. But while there is no biological basis for a white race, whiteness is real. What's more, whiteness as a way of being in the world has been parasitically joined to Christianity, and this is the ground of many of our problems today. It is time to redouble the efforts of the church and its institutions to muster well-informed, gospel-based initiatives to fight racialized injustice and overcome the heresy of whiteness. Written by a world-class roster of scholars, Can “White” People Be Saved? develops language to describe the current realities of race and racism. It challenges evangelical Christianity in particular to think more critically and constructively about race, ethnicity, migration, and mission in relation to white supremacy. Historical and contemporary perspectives from Africa and the African diaspora prompt fresh theological and missiological questions about place and identity. Native American and Latinx experiences of colonialism, migration, and hybridity inspire theologies and practices of shalom. And Asian and Asian American experiences of ethnicity and class generate transnational resources for responding to the challenge of systemic injustice. With their call for practical resistance to the Western whiteness project, the perspectives in this volume can revitalize a vision of racial justice and peace in the body of Christ.

• The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism
• The Christian Imagination: Theology and the Origins of Race
• The Cross and the Lynching Tree
• White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
• Burying White Privilege: Resurrecting a Badass Christianity
• Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God
• White Awake: An Honest Look at What It Means to Be White
• Said I Wasn't Gonna Tell Nobody: The Making of a Black Theologian
• Reconstructing the Gospel: Finding Freedom from Slaveholder Religion
• Woke Church: An Urgent Call for Christians in America to Confront Racism and Injustice