Rosetta E. Ross

Enfleshing Freedom

Theology

“Shawn Copeland's Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, and Being responds to the perpetual Christian theological inquiry about the meaning of being human with a refreshing reclamation of liberation theology's foundational premise that Jesus calls disciples to know and to contest the wounding of persons. A womanist theological anthropology that uses accumulated traumas of Black women's bodies to unmask the depths of human horrors and divine love, Enfleshing Freedom identifies countering division and domination as what it means to truly be human. The human body, Enfleshing Freedom maintains, is a facilitator of divine revelation, a source of human relationality, and divine affirmation of diversity. Citing Black women's historic opposition to Black pain and contemporary #BlackLivesMatter practices as signs, Enfleshing Freedom asserts that Jesus calls disciples to enact assembly (ekklesia) and communion (Eucharist) through solidarity in "bodily living" that both combats indignities against persons within Christian communities and extends assembly and communion as the solidarity of combating indignity through wide-open welcome and camaraderie.”

Ethical Prophets along the Way

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Burrow uses Abraham Heschel’s theoretical constructions to assert that prophets respond to divine calling through maladjustment to routinized practices of dehumanization. . . . This book is a signpost and an important read for all who actively pursue justice.”

Faith, Class, and Labor

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Faith, Class, and Labor is a thoughtfully conceived anthology. Through the lenses of history, Bible, gender, and organizing and activism, authors representing eight geographical contexts present complex and nuanced readings of class that describe how intersectional circumstances influence and reveal the meaning of class in what people experience. . . . This book is a must-read for academic and practical engagement in Christian ethics as well as for all of us who sometimes are befuddled by the absence of concrete discussions of class as we witness its diverse, disappointing manifestations in our own communities and in communities around the globe.”

Reimagining Spirit

Theology

“Grace Ji-Sun Kim has written an engaging text that considers how to address important contemporary issues in light of an evolving, hybrid Christian pneumatology. . . . By emphasizing the worldwide nature of Christianity alongside an exploration of spirit’s presence across religions, Kim pushes against an understanding of cultures as absolutely distinct. Noting both the permeability and interrelationship of cultures and the reality of a worldwide Christianity manifested in diverse geographies through diverse cultures, Kim challenges Christianity to embrace the reinvigoration that is available through the multiplicity within itself. As an exemplar of this reinvigoration, Kim discusses the Korean concept jeong, a sticky kind of love, which pushes against the transactional nature in many understandings of love in the United States.”