Reparations and the Theological Disciplines : Prophetic Voices for Remembrance, Reckoning, and Repair

Historically, many churches and theologians defended and supported race-based slavery and subsequent forms of racial hierarchy and violence. The essays in Reparations and the Theological Disciplines argue that it is urgent that the theological disciplines engage the issue of reparations by revisiting Scripture and our theological traditions. The time is now for remembrance, reckoning, and repair. Contents Abbreviations Introduction Reparations and the Bible Reparations in Exodus1 Bypassing the Bible Witness: The Job From Here to Jubilee Reparational Reasoning Witness: Zacchaeus and the Call to Repair You Cannot Pay Back What You Have Never Owned Philemon as a Plea for Reparations Then and Now Reparations and Christian Theology The Reparational God Myth, Belonging, and Reparative Ethics “Don’t Make Me Feel Guilty” Witness: Reparations or Atonement Reparations NOW Catholic Social Thought and Reparations Reparations in History and Contemporary Praxis The DC Compensated Emancipation Act as Precedent for Reparations Reparation as Reckoning Witness: The Call for Truth and Reparations in Minnesota “Bear Fruits Worthy of Repentance” Conclusion Author/Subject Index Scripture Index About the Contributors