The Post-Racial Church

A Biblical Framework for Multiethnic Reconciliation

Author: Kenneth Mathews & M. Sydney Park

In The Post-Racial Church, Kenneth Mathews and Sydney Park present a scriptural framework for how the church ought to operate as a multiethnic culture. If the church is called to the work of reconciliation,
if the universal church is multiethnic, and if every tribe and tongue will praise God together in the end, then shouldnt individual churches reflect that truth today‌.

In this book pastors will find biblical, philosophical, and practical reasons for challenging the local church to become a multiethnic congregation that joins together in worship of the God who calls each of us.

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Kenneth Mathews (PhD, University of Michigan) is Professor of Divinity at Beeson Divinity School, Birmingham, Alabama, where he has taught Old Testament Studies and Biblical Interpretation for twenty years. Mathews' major publications include the original publication of a Dead Sea Scroll, The Leviticus Scroll, a two-volume commentary on the book of Genesis, and a preaching commentary on Leviticus. He is currently undertaking a commentary on Joshua.

M. Sydney Park (PhD, University of Aberdeen) teaches Biblical Interpretation, New Testament Theology, and Greek at Beeson Divinity School. Her research interests include racial reconciliation and the Gospel of Mark. Park previously taught New Testament at Crown College in St. Bonifacius, Minnesota (2004–06), and also served as a minister to children, youth and young adults in Korean American churches in Illinois, Texas and Washington for 11 years. She is the author of Submission within the Godhead and the Church in the Epistle to the Philippians: An Exegetical and Theological Examination of the Concept of Submission in Philippians 2 and 3 and coeditor of Honoring the Generations: Learning with Asian North American Congregations. Park is currently working on a book, Women in Salvation History (working title) with T&T Clark, forthcoming.

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