Evangelical Theologies of Liberation and Justice

Mae Elise Cannon is the author of the award-winning Social Justice Handbook and Just Spirituality, and coauthor of Forgive Us. She has served as the senior director of advocacy and outreach for World Vision-US, the executive pastor of Hillside Covenant Church (Walnut Creek, California), and a consultant for Compassion International. Andrea Smith is a cofounder of Evangelicals 4 Justice and a board member of the North American Institute for Indigenous Theological Studies. She is currently chair of the Ethnic Studies Department at UC Riverside. Her books include Conquest, Native Americans and the Christian Right, and Unreconciled (forthcoming).

Introduction (Mae Elise Cannon and Andrea Smith)



Part I: Liberation Methodologies


1. Centered Versus Bounded: Moving Beyond Divide and Conquer Strategies for Liberation (Paul Louis Metzger)

2. Evangelical Theologies of Liberation (Soong-Chan Rah)

3. Is It Time for a Womanist Theology of Reconciliation? (Chanequa Walker-Barnes)



Part II: Engagement with Liberation Theology Movements


4. Toward a Perspective of "Brown Theology" (Robert Chao Romero)

5. Justicia Familiar: Misión Integral in the United States (Alexia Salvatierra)



Part III: Rethinking Sin


6. A Born-Again Theology of Liberation (Andrea Smith)

7. The Groaning Creation: Animal Liberation and Evangelical Theology (Sarah Withrow King)

8. Holy and Acceptable: Liberation from Evangelical Fat Shame (J. Nicole Morgan)

9. Liberation: Self and Community in Relationship (Terry LeBlanc and Jeanine LeBlanc)



Part IV: Theological Resources from the Margins


10. Lean In to Liberating Love: The Birth of Evangelical Theology of Liberation at Gordon-Conwell's Center for Urban Ministerial Education (Peter Goodwin Heltzel, Pablo A. Jiménez, and Emmett G. Price III)

11. Toward an Indian Liberation Theology for the Shudra and Dalit (Rajkumar Boaz Johnson)

12. Strange Freedom: Liberation for the Sake of Others (Mae Elise Cannon)



Part V: Rethinking Our Evangelical Heritage


13. Liberating Barabbas: And the Things That Make for Peace (Drew G. I. Hart)

14. Jubilee, Pentecost, and Liberation: The Preferential Option of the Poor on the Apostolic Way (Amos Yong)

15. Sacramental Theology (Dominique DuBois Gilliard)



Contributor Biographies

Scripture Index