Awakening to Justice: Faithful Voices from the Abolitionist Past
Douglas M. Strong · Albert G. Miller · Esther Chung-Kim · David D. Daniels III · Christopher P. Momany · Diane Leclerc · Sègbégnon Mathieu Gnonhossou · R. Matthew Sigler · The Dialogue on Race and Faith Project · Jemar Tisby · Estrelda Y. Alexander
Mar 2024 · Christian Audio · Narrated by Diana Blue
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In 2015, the historian Chris Momany helped discover a manuscript that had been forgotten in a storage closet at Adrian College in Michigan. He identified it as the journal of a nineteenth-century Christian abolitionist and missionary, David Ingraham. As Momany and a fellow historian Doug Strong pored over the diary, they realized that studying this document could open new conversations for twenty-first-century Christians to address the reality of racism today. They invited a multiracial team of fourteen scholars to join in, thus launching the Dialogue on Race and Faith Project.
Awakening to Justice presents the groundbreaking work of these scholars. In addition to reflecting on Ingraham's journal, chapters also explore the life and writings of two of Ingraham's Black colleagues, James Bradley and Nancy Prince.
Through considering connections between the revivalist, holiness, and abolitionist movements; the experiences of enslaved and freed people; abolitionists' spiritual practices; various tactics used by abolitionists; and other themes, the authors offer insight and hope for Christians concerned about racial justice. They highlight how Christians associated with Charles Finney's style of revivalism formed intentional, countercultural communities such as Oberlin College to be exemplars of interracial cooperation and equality.
Awakening to Justice presents the groundbreaking work of these scholars. In addition to reflecting on Ingraham's journal, chapters also explore the life and writings of two of Ingraham's Black colleagues, James Bradley and Nancy Prince.
Through considering connections between the revivalist, holiness, and abolitionist movements; the experiences of enslaved and freed people; abolitionists' spiritual practices; various tactics used by abolitionists; and other themes, the authors offer insight and hope for Christians concerned about racial justice. They highlight how Christians associated with Charles Finney's style of revivalism formed intentional, countercultural communities such as Oberlin College to be exemplars of interracial cooperation and equality.
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David D. Daniels III is Henry Winters Luce Professor of Global Christianity at McCormick Theological Seminary.
Esther Chung-Kim is assistant professor of religious studies at Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, California.
The Dialogue on Race and Faith Project brings together a multicultural team of Christian scholars to study a newly discovered abolitionist journal, and to discuss how issues of faith and race among abolitionists may provide a usable history for addressing the struggle for racial justice today.
Segbegnon Mathieu Gnonhossou is assistant professor of theological studies at Seattle Pacific University.
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