{"id":42808,"date":"2021-03-28T22:27:02","date_gmt":"2021-03-28T14:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scaccmm.sarawakmethodist.org\/?p=42808"},"modified":"2021-03-28T22:27:02","modified_gmt":"2021-03-28T14:27:02","slug":"was-jesus-racist-book-review-and-critique-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaccmm.sarawakmethodist.org\/new\/?p=42808","title":{"rendered":"Was Jesus Racist? ( Book Review and Critique &#8211; 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">BOOKreview<\/span><\/h6>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Crow, D. Michael.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\">Was Jesus Racist? &#8211; Theological Barriers to Mission <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\">(Kindle Book. ISBN: 978-0-9849773-0-7), 2011. (32 pages)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Summary of main idea<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nThis book shows how Jesus prepares his disciples for mission to the Gentiles. The author explains how Jesus uses his encounter with the Syro-Phoenician woman in Matt.15:21-28 to correct their racist attitude towards Gentiles. This is important, because Jesus himself, in a radical break with the Pharisees, was embarking on a large-scale embrace of the Gentiles into his Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Three strengths<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\nFirst, the book has a catchy title. Second, the author convincingly argues that Jesus\u2019 seemingly racist remarks to the Syro-Phoenician Woman was actually a mimicry of the ugly attitudes of the Jews towards Gentiles, in order to expose just how foul it was and to correct it. Third, the author gave a good explanation on Jesus\u2019 puzzling double-touch healing.<\/p>\n<p>Three weaknesses<br \/>\nIt was well written.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Quotation<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cBut just as Christ embraced us at the Cross, we too must embrace \u2018the cultural other\u2019 to perceive His grace in their lives. Get used to it, guys! This thing is going global!\u201d (Crow 2011: 32)<\/p>\n<h6>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\">By Rev. Dr. Philip Ang Keng Yong<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\">Retired pastor<\/span><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BOOKreview Crow, D. Michael. Was Jesus Racist? &#8211; Theological Barriers to Mission (Kindle Book. ISBN: 978-0-9849773-0-7), 2011. (32 pages) Summary of main idea This book shows how Jesus prepares his disciples for mission to the Gentiles. The author explains how Jesus uses his encounter with the Syro-Phoenician woman in Matt.15:21-28 to correct their racist attitude [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48980,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[291,292,10],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaccmm.sarawakmethodist.org\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42808"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaccmm.sarawakmethodist.org\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaccmm.sarawakmethodist.org\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaccmm.sarawakmethodist.org\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaccmm.sarawakmethodist.org\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaccmm.sarawakmethodist.org\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaccmm.sarawakmethodist.org\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/48980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaccmm.sarawakmethodist.org\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaccmm.sarawakmethodist.org\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaccmm.sarawakmethodist.org\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}