Decolonizing Christianity: Becoming Badass Believers

by Miguel A. De La Torre

Publisher:

Eerdmans

, 2021

Overview

With this follow-up to his earlier Burying White Privilege, De La Torre prophetically outlines how we need to decolonize Christianity and reclaim its revolutionary message. Timid white liberalism is not the answer for De La Torre—only another form of complicity. Working from the parable of the sheep and the goats in the Gospel of Matthew, he calls for unapologetic solidarity with the sheep and an unequivocal rejection of the false, idolatrous Christianity.

Contents

• Lest We Forget
• The Day of Judgement
• Accompanying the Least of These
• Revealing Revelations
• Badass Prophets

Praise for the Print Edition

Miguel De La Torre has long been one of the premier social ethicists in the world, seeking to offer a radical, no-holds-barred reconceptualization of Christianity that supports the most marginalized and oppressed. In Decolonizing Christianity, De La Torre continues in his bold and prophetic attempt to rid Christianity and the church in the US of the bad habits accrued by several centuries of brutal colonialism and racism. This text is a must-read, written by one of the most badass theologians on the planet!

—Anthony G. Reddie

The church in America will be recovering from the Trump presidency for many years to come, and De La Torre puts his finger squarely on the problem from a sociological and theological standpoint. The Trump regime buttressed ‘white Christianity,’ the insidious worldview that embraces racial supremacy and believes in the manifest destiny of white bodies to occupy the highest echelons of power, profits, and privilege.

—Robert Chao Romero

Miguel De La Torre’s Decolonizing Christianity is a tour de force. Colonization is not only a takeover of nations but an active takeover of knowledge. Challenging the colonizing theology of racialized nationalism, De La Torre courageously calls us to follow Christ toward actual freedom.

—Peter Goodwin Heltzel

Product Details

• Title: Decolonizing Christianity: Becoming Badass Believers
• Author: Miguel A. De La Torre
• Publisher: Eerdmans
• Print Publication Date: 2021
• Logos Release Date: 2022
• Pages: 232
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subjects: Christianity › United States; Church work with minorities › United States; Postcolonial theology
• ISBNs: 9780802878472, 0802878474
• Resource ID: LLS:DCLNZNGCHRSTNTY
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-29T23:13:22Z

About Miguel A. De La Torre

Miguel A. De La Torre is associate professor of social ethics at Iliff School of Theology in Denver. He is the author of several books, including The Quest for the Historical Satan, Social Justice from a Latino/a Perspective, Liberating Jonah: Forming an Ethics of Reconciliation, and Doing Christian Ethics from the Margins. He is president of the Society for Christian Ethics and a board member of the American Academy of Religion. He is also the editor of the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Religion.