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“As the bullets are flying and the bodies are falling across the race line in America once again, precious few Christian theologians dare examine the issue at its theological roots. Andrew Draper’s concise and insightful engagement with the bravest and most exciting thinkers doing so today is a real gift. His own contribution takes the conversation a big step forward by offering us a winsome vision of a church that does not aspire to go beyond race, but to learn what it means to embrace a vulnerable communion in the middle of a world characterized by racial strife.”

—Brian Brock, Reader in Moral and Practical Theology, Department of Divinity, History and Philosophy, King’s College, Aberdeen

“In this deeply engaging and transforming book, Andrew Draper teases out the Christological and ecclesiological implications of the theories on the origin of the racial imagination posited by noted theologians Willie James Jennings and J. Kameron Carter. His constructive task is to ground Jennings’ ‘ecclesiology of joining’ within the lived space of his multicultural congregation. Those yearning to overcome the tortured ways that ‘reconciliation’ gets deployed by the racial logic and practices inscribed within Western Christian theology must read this book.”

—James W. Lewis, Retired Dean, Anderson University School of Theology, Anderson, IN