Author : James E. Dittes
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1592442781
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (924 download)
Book Synopsis Bias and the Pious by : James E. Dittes
Download or read book Bias and the Pious written by James E. Dittes and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2003-06-30 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The persistence of racial bias in churches and among church people is sometimes greeted with an embarrassed hush by Christians--and brutally advertised by critics of the church. This book deals with that unfortunate reality clearly and firmly. It offers a careful but unflinching analysis of the damage that prejudice inflicts on blacks and whites alike. And, more than this, it makes prejudice understandable by explaining how people come to need the protective barriers that their prejudice provides them.The author, himself a committed Christian, is not embarrassed about finding racial bias within the church. He reminds us that the church is for sinners--not saints. Those whose insecurity motivates them to erect the fences of prejudice between themselves and other Christians may find, in the gospel message, the positive reinforcement that can undo that prejudice.