Christian Imagination

The Christian Imagination Theology and the Origins of Race Willie James Jennings Yale University Press, 2017ISBN 9780300171365 Softcover, 384 pp.9.0 X 5.8 X 0.8 inches | 1.1 pounds A groundbreaking account of the potential and failures of Christianity since the colonialist period--winner of the 2015 Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion and of an American Academy of Religion Award for Excellence "Detailing the nooks and crannies of white supremacist Christianity, The Christian Imagination allows not only for greater sophistication when considering race and theology. It also points to possible cures to the disease so elegantly diagnosed."--Edward J. Blum, Journal of Religion "[A] theological masterpiece."--Chris Smith, Englewood Review of Books Why has Christianity, a religion premised upon neighborly love, failed in its attempts to heal social divisions? In this ambitious and wide-ranging work, Willie James Jennings delves deep into the late medieval soil in which the modern Christ