![]() ![]() Jim Perkinson’s Messianism Against Christology: Resistance Movements, Folk Arts and Empire (Palgrave, 2013) is an important contribution to the Bible & Jesus reclamation project of post-Evangelicals, poets and prophets. Indeed, is there really anything else? Yet, many like me have grown into adulthood and out of Evangelicalism, not because the Bible & Jesus are no longer important, but because the Bible Answer Men have used their interpretations to justify privilege all over the globe. ![]() Growing up in the conservative white suburban Evangelical Christian tradition of North America, nothing was more important than the Bible & Jesus. *Note: an abridged version of this review was published in the December 2015 issue of Sojourners Magazine Jim Perkinson, Messianism Against Christology (2014) …the undercurrent of a conflict between lifeways haunts the text. ![]()
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