Redeeming mulatto
Subtitle: a theology of race and Christian hybridity
By: Brian Bantum.
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Waco, Tex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9781602582934
Subjects: Jesus Christ -- Person and offices; Race -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Racially mixed people -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Description: The theological attempts to understand Christ's body have either focused on "philosophical" claims about Jesus' identity or on "contextual" rebuttals--on a culturally transcendent, diesembodied Jesus of the creeds or on a Jesus of color who rescues and saves a particular people because of embodied particularity. But neither of these two attempts has accounted for the world as it is, a world of mixed race of hybridity, of cultural and racial intermixing. By not understanding the true theological problem, that we live in a mulatto world, the right question has not been posed: how can Christ save this mixed world? The answer, Brian Bantum shows, is in the mulattoness of Jesus' own body, which is simultaneously fully God and fully human. --From publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.         ) and index.