RT Article
T1 Spiritual Formation: Race, Racism, and Racial Reconciliation
JF Journal of spiritual formation & soul care
VO 13
IS 2
SP 156
OP 175
A1 Chandler, Diane J.
LA English
PB Sage Publishing
YR 2020
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1742024122
AB The telos of Christian spiritual formation is to love God and to love one’s neighbor as oneself. However, racism undermines loving one’s neighbor, which weakens the Christian witness and contributes to division within American culture and the church. Unfortunately, racism is seldom viewed as a spiritual formation issue, nor is it specifically addressed as such in the spiritual formation literature. Therefore, this essay focuses on four primary areas: (1) spiritual formation and race from a biblical perspective, including a definition of terms; (2) biblical examples of racial reconciliation; (3) four critical periods of US history that have contributed to racial trauma and inequality; and (4) suggested steps toward racial reconciliation. Healing collective racial wounds begins with recognizing the truth related to America’s past and requires a disposition to listen, learn, lament, repent, repair, and relate to one another.
K1 Spiritual Formation
K1 Race
K1 Racism
K1 racial reconciliation
K1 Justice
K1 Repentance
DO 10.1177/1939790920960540