Earl Bland

Eucontamination

Theology

“I love reading books that rouse me from intellectual slumber and invite me to reimagine my thinking, categories, and meaning—particularly when the authors speak from inside my tradition and cultural history. Written with penetrating erudition and clarity, siblings Paul and Billie Hoard engage our gut, our visceral imagination of what it means to be Christian. Drawing broadly from theology, psychoanalysis/psychology, literature, philosophy, current events, and popular culture, Paul and Billie have written an enormously interesting, engaging, and provocative confrontation of how disgust and contamination infuse and distort our spiritual and relational lives. How do we live and love as Christians with those we are different from? How do we acknowledge our own contributions to the fracturing of our world? How do we identify the damaging discourses of our faith that counteract the work of God? How do we reverse the contamination of sin, not with fear, but with engaging the transformative power of Christ’s messy, engaging, infectious love? This book makes a critically significant contribution to answering these questions.”