Gerald McDermott on 'Race & Covenant' and racial reconciliation
<p>The United States is consumed with questions regarding race, the legacy of slavery, and the nature of social justice. Where are people of faith to turn?</p><br><p>For most of the last two thousand years Christians have believed that God deals with nations as nations and enters into closer relations with societies that claim him as Lord. This belief in the national covenant, only recently out of fashion, is where Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and Martin Luther King, Jr. turned when faced with such questions in their own time.</p><br><p>In this episode Acton’s Dan Hugger talks with Gerald McDermott, the&nbsp;editor of the new book&nbsp;<em>Race and Covenant: Recovering the Religious Roots for American Reconciliation</em>, about the idea of national covenant in scripture, history, and contemporary American society and how a revitalization of this idea could help lead to racial reconciliation.</p><br><p><a href="https://shop.acton.org/collections/available-for-pre-order/products/race-and-covenant" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Race and Covenant: Recovering the Religious Roots for American Reconciliation</em> - Gerald McDermott</a></p><br><p><a href="https://blog.acton.org/archives/117539-race-and-covenant-recovering-the-religious-roots-of-american-reconciliation.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Excerpt from <em>Race and Covenant</em> - Gerald McDermott</a></p><br><p><a href="https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2020/10/72125/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Misunderstanding Race and the Bible - Gerald McDermott</a></p><br><p><a href="https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2020/06/race-and-redemption" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Race and Redemption - Gerald McDermott</a></p><br><p><a href="https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2020/09/wanted-pastors-with-courage" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Wanted: Pastors with Courage - Gerald McDermott</a></p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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Show Notes
The United States is consumed with questions regarding race, the legacy of slavery, and the nature of social justice. Where are people of faith to turn?
For most of the last two thousand years Christians have believed that God deals with nations as nations and enters into closer relations with societies that claim him as Lord. This belief in the national covenant, only recently out of fashion, is where Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and Martin Luther King, Jr. turned when faced with such questions in their own time.
In this episode Acton’s Dan Hugger talks with Gerald McDermott, the editor of the new book Race and Covenant: Recovering the Religious Roots for American Reconciliation, about the idea of national covenant in scripture, history, and contemporary American society and how a revitalization of this idea could help lead to racial reconciliation.
Race and Covenant: Recovering the Religious Roots for American Reconciliation - Gerald McDermott
Excerpt from Race and Covenant - Gerald McDermott
Misunderstanding Race and the Bible - Gerald McDermott
Race and Redemption - Gerald McDermott
Wanted: Pastors with Courage - Gerald McDermott
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.