Aliens in the Promised Land: Why Minority Leadership Is Overlooked in White Christian Churches and Institutions - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1596382341 ISBN 13: 9781596382343

Publisher: P&R Publishing, 2013

Synopsis

In an age when church growth is centered in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, evangelicalism must adapt to changing demographics or risk becoming irrelevant. Yet many evangelicals behave tribally valuing the perspective of only those like themselves while also denying any evidence of racial attitudes in the church. Anthony Bradley has gathered scholars and leaders from diverse tribes black, Hispanic, and Asian to share advice on building relationships with minority communites and valuing the perspectives and leadership of minority Christians (not just their token presence.) They seek to help evangelicalism more faithfully show the world that the gospel brings together in Christ people from all tribes, languages, and cultures.

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About the Author

Anthony Bradley, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Theology and Ethics at The King's College in New York City and serves as a Research Fellow at the Acton Institute.  Dr. Bradley holds a B.S. in biological sciences from Clemson University, an M.Div. from Covenant Theological Seminary, an M.A. in Ethics and Society from Fordham University, and a Ph.D. from Westminster Theological Seminary.

Review

This is a terrific book. For years evangelicals have discussed among themselves ways to reach minority communities, without much participation from minorities themselves. This book is a game changer. Here, black, Asian, and Latino writers say what they most want to say to the evangelical (and specifically Reformed) community. If you are tired of the usual arguments about race, as I am, this book will wake you up with some new ideas, such as Lance Lewis s suggestion. He urges a moratorium on evangelicals' (even black evangelicals') planting churches directed toward blacks. I m not sure I agree. But like many ideas in this book, Lewis s are clearly written and backed up by good arguments. That a Reformed publisher has undertaken to publish a book like this is itself a very promising development. I urge everyone to read this book who is seeking to carry out Jesus Great Commission. --Dr. John Frame, Professor of Systematic Theology and Philosophy, Reformed Theological Seminary, Orlando

Edition details

• Publisher: P&R Publishing
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1596382341
• ISBN 13: 9781596382343
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Bradley Anthony B.