The God Who Riots

Taking Back the Radical Jesus

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Paperback, 194 pages

English language

Published Aug. 23, 2022 by Broadleaf Books.

ISBN:
978-1-5064-8037-4
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For thousands of years, religious messages have been used to either uphold the status quo or upend it. And while we are all very familiar with the kind of conservative Christianity that suppresses liberation and justifies oppression, progressive Christians are just as guilty of upholding unjust systems when we prioritize harmony and unity over justice. True justice requires us to choose sides and to act. In his his frank, tell-it-like-it-is style to connect us with the Jesus who flipped tables in the temple and led an empire-destabilizing movement for liberation. The spirit of this God is embodied in today's protests, riots, and strikes. As we join this struggle for liberation, we are joining the God who riots alongside us, within us, and through us

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reviewed The God Who Riots by Damon Garcia

Liberation Theology 101, or a materialist spirituality

Garcia traces the radical Jesus, the political agitator and insurrectionist Jesus who lies buried so deeply under gold and stone and church doctrine. He reminds us of a God who is of 'the least of these', a God of the oppressed, and against the oppressor. A God that flips tables, a God that is protected from prosecution, not by sheer divinity, but by the bodies of masses. A collectively constructed God that is constituted through the act of rioting. "Abolition come, on earth as it is in heaven."

Subjects

  • Demonstrations -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
  • Riots -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
  • Jesus Christ -- Person and offices

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