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When heaven and earth collide, racism, southern evangelicals, and the better way of Jesus, Alan Cross ; foreword by William Dwight McKissic Sr

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When heaven and earth collide, racism, southern evangelicals, and the better way of Jesus, Alan Cross ; foreword by William Dwight McKissic Sr

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

When heaven and earth collide

Medium

electronic resource eBook

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Alan Cross ; foreword by William Dwight McKissic Sr

Sub title

racism, southern evangelicals, and the better way of Jesus

Summary

When Heaven and Earth Collide is an investigation into what went wrong in the American South in regard to race and religion-and how things can be and are being made right. Why, in a land filled with Christian churches, was there such racial oppression and division? Why didn't white evangelicals do more to bring racial reconciliation to the South during the 19th and 20th centuries? These questions are asked and answered through an exploration of history, politics, economics, philosophy, and social and theological studies that uncovers the hidden impetus behind racism and demonstrates how we can still make many of the same errors today-just perhaps in different ways. The investigation finally leads us in hopeful directions involving how to live out the better way of Jesus with an eye on heaven in a world still burdened and broken under the sins of the past

Table Of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface - What Went Wrong? -- Part 1 - Earth: The Story -- Chapter 1 - Freedom Riders -- Chapter 2 - Evangelicals and Southern Civil Religion -- Chapter 3 - The Subversion of Christianity -- Chapter 4 - Southern Religion: Greek Philosophy or Christianity? -- Chapter 5 - Civil Rights, Broken Trust, and Missed Opportunity -- Chapter 6 - What If the Church Had Been Different? -- Chapter 7 - Five Cultural Platforms -- Part 2 - Heaven & Hope: The Kingdom of God -- Chapter 8 - What Would Jesus Have Done? -- Chapter 9 - The Better Way of Jesus -- Chapter 10 - The Church -- Epilogue - Freedom Riders and Praying Christians, Fifty Years Later -- About the Author

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