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Canon Esau’s contribution to biblical scholarship, pastoral understanding, and justice is immense and I’m grateful for it. His book exposed me more deeply to the biblical wrestling of a people who were enslaved, who chose to believe in Jesus and the Bible because they saw a God who liberates and saves. They accomplished this against a tide of slaveholder interpretations which pictured a God that enslaves and a Bible that justifies greed, rape and dehumanization of people. Yet the enslaved saw the true character of God and believed in him. These false readings remain today in our defenses of unequal policing methods and in our denials of systemic injustice. If he intends to start a conversation, he has already succeeded. Thank you for this book!
Canon Esau’s contribution to biblical scholarship, pastoral understanding, and justice is immense and I’m grateful for it. His book exposed me more deeply to the biblical wrestling of a people who were enslaved, who chose to believe in Jesus and the Bible because they saw a God who liberates and saves. They accomplished this against a tide of slaveholder interpretations which pictured a God that enslaves and a Bible that justifies greed, rape and dehumanization of people. Yet the enslaved saw the true character of God and believed in him. These false readings remain today in our defenses of unequal policing methods and in our denials of systemic injustice. If he intends to start a conversation, he has already succeeded. Thank you for this book!