This Side of Heaven: Race, Ethnicity, and Christian Faith
Escobar, Samuel, International Bulletin of Missionary Research
This Side of Heaven: Race, Ethnicity, and Christian Faith. Edited by Robert J. Priest and AlvaroL.Nieves. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2007. Pp. xiv, 356. £541 $99; paperback £19.99 / $35.
Twenty social scientists and theologians from all over the United States have contributed to this valuable symposium on racism in American society from a Christian perspective. They share the conviction that "while Christians claim 'citizenship in heaven' (Phil. 3:20 NIV), we live 'on this side of heaven,' where we find ourselves enmeshed in realities that are anything but heavenly" (p. 323). The editors state clearly their intention to diagnose and analyze "the nature of racial and ethnical …
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Publication information:
Article title: This Side of Heaven: Race, Ethnicity, and Christian Faith.
Contributors: Escobar, Samuel - Author.
Magazine title: International Bulletin of Missionary Research.
Volume: 32.
Issue: 1
Publication date: January 2008.
Page number: 46.
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