"A nationally recognized civil rights leader and pastor offers a prophetic call to church leaders and students to recover reconciliation as the heart of the church's message to a divided world"--

• Foreword xi
• William H. Willimon
• Acknowledgments xv
• Introduction 1 (16)
• Reconciliation in Context
• The Divided States of America
• Social Divisions and the Church's
• Ministry of Reconciliation
• Conclusion
• Part 1 The Theology of Reconciliation
• 1 The Trajectory of Reconciliation: 17 (18)
• Definitions and Peter's Leadership in the
• Early Church
• Defining and Contextualizing
• Reconciliation: Salvific, Social, and
• Civil
• Peter's Leadership in Moving the Church
• toward Reconciliation: The Original Use
• of the Word Church
• The Church Was Born as a Jewish Assembly
• Reconciliation under Peter's Leadership:
• The Church Admits Gentiles as "the Other"
• 2 Social Reconciliation: Paul's Theology of 35 (18)
• Equality in Christ Jesus
• Paul's Theology in Moving the Church
• toward Reconciliation
• Social Reconciliation in Galatians, 1
• Corinthians, and Romans
• Applying Social Reconciliation's
• Threefold Criteria to Paul's Theology of
• Equality
• 3 Civil Reconciliation: Contextualizing 53 (18)
• King and the Black Church's Ministry of
• Reconciliation
• Civil Reconciliation Stems from Social
• Reconciliation
• The Importance of Forgiveness in Civil
• Reconciliation
• Contextualizing Civil Reconciliation
• Revisiting Forgiveness as a Part of
• Reconciliation: King's Theology with a
• More Contemporary and Applied Response
• Conclusion
• Part 2 Reconciliation with "the Other"
• 4 The Response to Civil Reconciliation: 71 (28)
• White Evangelicalism and the Southern
• Strategy Give Rise to "Make America Great
• Again"
• The Southern Strategy Meets "Make America
• Great Again"
• The Voting Rights Act and Affirmative
• Action: Two of the Civil Rights
• Movement's Most Measurable Achievements
• in Civil Reconciliation
• A Response to Success: The Southern
• Strategy Fusion of White Evangelicals and
• the Republican Party
• Can Anything Separate Evangelicals from
• Blind Political Allegiance?
• Conclusion
• 5 Where Do We Go from Here? A Call for the 99 (22)
• Church to Return to Her Apostolic-Era
• Embrace of Diversity and Inclusion
• What Did God Intend the Church to Look
• Like?
• How Can Diversity and Inclusion Be Good
• in Moving the Church toward
• Reconciliation?
• Evangelicals and the Issues: Can the
• Divisions Unearthed by MAGA Move the
• Church toward Reconciliation?
• Conclusion
• Epilogue 121(4)
• Afterword 125(2)
• Michael B. Curry
• Appendix: Supreme Court Cases 127(2)
• Scripture Index 129(2)
• Subject Index 131