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Redeeming Mulatto: A Theology of Race and Christian Hybridity Hardcover – October 1, 2010

by Brian Bantum (Author)
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The theological attempts to understand Christ's body have either focused on "philosophical" claims about Jesus' identity or on "contextual" rebuttals―on a culturally transcendent, disembodied Jesus of the creeds or on a Jesus of color who rescues and saves a particular people because of embodied particularity.

But neither of these two attempts has accounted for the world as it is, a world of mixed race, of hybridity, of cultural and racial intermixing. By not understanding the true theological problem, that we live in a mulatto world, the right question has not been posed: How can Christ save this mixed world? The answer, Brian Bantum shows, is in the mulattoness of Jesus' own body, which is simultaneously fully God and fully human.

In Redeeming Mulatto, Bantum reconciles the particular with the transcendent to account for the world as it is: mixed. He constructs a remarkable new Christological vision of Christ as tragic mulatto--one who confronts the contrived delusions of racial purity and the violence of self-assertion and emerges from a "hybridity" of flesh and spirit, human and divine, calling humanity to a mulattic rebirth. Bantum offers a theology that challenges people to imagine themselves inside their bodies, changed and something new, but also not without remnants of the old. His theology is one for all people, offered through the lens of a particular people, not for individual possession but for redemption and transformation into something new.

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  1. Print length
    243 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Baylor University Press
  4. Publication date
    October 1, 2010
  5. Dimensions
    6.75 x 1.25 x 9.25 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1602582939
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1602582934
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Bantum moves beyond [Milbank] by arguing that white racism is religious in outlook, leaving no place for mulattos. But Christ transgresses racial boundaries in assuming human nature. The Calcedonian definition defines Christ as uniquely mulatto...Seminary libraries should have [this book].

(Religious Studies Review)

Any preacher that is interested in reflecting on the racial construction of theology in her or his preaching would benefit from this intelligent work.

(Timothy Jones, Ph. D. student, Boston University School of Theology Homiletic)

Bantum invites us into a new existence, an interstitial or in-between Christian life beyond race...this is an important book that makes a genuine breakthrough in discussions of theology and race. Bantum succeeds in taking us beyond the binary impasses of black theology and the racial (if not racist) indifference of white Christianity.

(The Christian Century)

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A remarkable piece of work that explores how the tragic character of mulatto existence not only illumines but also is decisive for helping us think through some of the fundamental Christological affirmations of the Christian faith. This theologically sophisticated book will assuredly make a difference in how we break out of some of the perennial debates of the past.

(Stanley Hauerwas, Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Theological Ethics, Duke University)

A significant work that fuses the discourses of theology, critical theory, literary theory, and critical race theory. Redeeming Mulatto evidences a respectable breadth of engagement and a surprising facility with bringing seemingly disparate discourses into constructive dialogue.

(Stephen G. Ray, Jr., Neal F. and Illa A. Fisher Professor of Theology, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary)

Bantum not only incisively argues how mulatto life critically exposes the deceit of whiteness and the black struggle for wholeness but envisions constructive theology through the lens of Christ's own mulatto existence. Redeeming Mulatto overcomes the prevailing myth of a post-racial society and stirs 'in-between' the life of the Spirit and the mission of mulattic discipleship.

(Dale P. Andrews, Distinguished Professor of Homiletics and Social Justice, Vanderbilt University)

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Baylor University Press (October 1, 2010)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 243 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1602582939
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1602582934
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.22 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.75 x 1.25 x 9.25 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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Brian Bantum is the Neil F. and Ila A. Professor of Theology at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary. He writes and teaches on the intersections of theology and embodiment, particularly on questions of race and identity. He is a contributing editor for The Christian Century and serves as Theologian-in-Residence at Quest Church in Seattle, WA. He speaks throughout the country on how racial imagination shapes our identity and how our lives as disciples might live into the fullness of God’s life and create spaces of justice and flourishing and life in their midst, becoming slight glimmers of God’s present and coming kingdom.

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George Faithful
3.0 out of 5 stars Not for Everyone
Reviewed in the United States on February 10, 2012
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In terms of its ideas (insofar as I understand them) this book deserves 5/5 stars. That said, it was near incomprehensible much of the time, written in obscure jargon and unnecessarily obtuse sentence constructions. If I have a Ph.D. in theology and have a hard time reading it, my own shortcomings as a reader are only part of the problem.

In terms of its contents, my biggest criticism is that it relies on outmoded models of normative mulatto experience. Those of us of mixed race increasingly know little of the tragedy that our forerunners knew. Bantam's work would have been the stronger had it reflected that. There was no proper introduction to the work (the introductory material did not clearly define the structure of the text) and there was no conclusion of any kind.

It's flaws are readily apparent, but if you are well-educated and concerned with the ambiguities of race from a religious perspective, this is the book for you -- and the only book I know of to deal with mixed-race from a theological perspective so thoroughly.
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C. Medine
4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting idea
Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2014
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I ordered this because of the idea of mixture and hybridity. I think that the work is interesting, but I thought that, in the end, the theology was not right for me. I would have argued that Jesus is, as Catholic theology argues, fully human and divine--in other words, with a doubleness, rather than neither one nor the other. Hybrid is a kind of uneasy fusion, in my way of thinking, one in which both are present, not neither. Still, the work raises good questions.
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