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Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Resurrection City -- Resurrection City: Eschatological Imagination -- Racism: America's Original Sin -- Improvising: A Jazz Approach to Theology -- 2. Shalom Justice: The Prophetic Imperative -- Shalom Justice -- From the Garden to the Tower -- Abraham, Sarah, and Hagar: Blessing Bearers to the Nations -- Moses and Miriam: Singing a Song of Victory -- Moses on the Mountain: The Origins of Mystical-Prophetic Theology -- Jubilee Justice -- Isaiah's Song of Shalom -- Micah's Challenge -- Conclusion -- 3. Jesus the Jewish Improviser -- Mary's Protest Songs -- Jesus the Galilean Jew -- Shalom Justice: The Song of the Kingdom of God -- Jesus as Exorcist and Healer -- Faithful Feasting: "Jesus Welcomes Sinners and Eats with Them" -- The Jesus Way: Costly Discipleship -- Jesus Is Victor -- 4. Freedom Dreams: Thomas Jefferson, Sojourner Truth, and the Promise of Freedom -- Thomas Jefferson's Dreams of Freedom -- Sojourner Truth -- Conclusion -- 5. Building the Beloved City: Howard Thurman and Martin Luther King Jr. -- Mystical-Prophetic Theology -- They Looked for a City -- Howard Thurman: The Mystic as Prophet -- Martin Luther King Jr. and the Morehouse Gospel -- Mohandas Gandhi and Nonviolent Love -- Love in the Poor People's Campaign -- Resurrection City -- Gender Justice in the Social Struggle -- Conclusion -- 6. The Church as a Theater of the Oppressed -- Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed -- Festival Time: The Cadence of the Church as a Musical Theater of the Oppressed -- Strangers and Other Angels -- Spaces of Hope -- Liberating the Church -- Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice -- Conclusion -- 7. A Love Supreme -- Jazz Love: A Love Supreme -- I. Acknowledgment -- II. Resolution -- III. Pursuance -- IV. Psalm -- Music Is a Common Language

This timely book investigates the increasing visibility and influence of evangelical Christians in recent American politics with a focus on racial justice. Peter Goodwin Heltzel considers four evangelical social movements: Focus on the Family, the National Association of Evangelicals, Christian Community Development Association, and Sojourners.The political motives and actions of evangelical groups are founded upon their conceptions of Jesus Christ, Heltzel contends. He traces the roots of contemporary evangelical politics to the prophetic black Christianity tradition of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the socially engaged evangelical tradition of Carl F. H. Henry. Heltzel shows that the basic tenets of King's and Henry's theologies have led their evangelical heirs toward a prophetic evangelicalism in a shade of blue green-blue symbolizing the tragedy of black suffering in the Americas, and green symbolizing the hope of a prophetic evangelical engagement with poverty, AIDS, and the environment. This fresh theological understanding of evangelical political groups shines new light on the ways evangelicals shape and are shaped by broader American culture

Born into a sharecropping family in New Hebron, Mississippi, in 1930, and only receiving a third-grade education, John M. Perkins has been a pioneering prophetic African American voice for reconciliation and social justice to America's white evangelical churches. Often an unwelcome voice and always a passionate, provocative clarion, Perkins persisted for forty years in bringing about the formation of the Christian Community Development Association--a large network of evangelical churches and community organizations working in America's poorest communities--and inspired the emerging generati