Disunity in Christ

Short Review: Most books about unity in the church are either theological or practical peace making types of books. Disunity in Christ has some of those elements, but it has something that no other Christian book on unity that I am aware of has, a good social science background.

Disunity in Christ tackles why people have in group and out group feelings and what we should do about it. There is some overlap with Richard Beck's Unclean with regard to the in-group/out-group dichotomy. But Beck's book was really just an exploration of that one feature. Disunity in Christ is more focused on what we need to do as Christians about unity within the church, not the primarily evangelistic focus of Beck's book.

If I had a complaint it would probably be that Cleveland is too easy on those in majority culture. But that is probably actually a feature of the book, not a complaint. There has to be an entry point to working on unity somewhere. And different Christians are at different points. I think that unity needs to start with adequate self examination and for most in majority culture, that has not happened, so there can't really be unity not because others are resistant, but because majority culture Christians are unaware of their own biases and prejudices and how they push minority Christians away from White Christian institutions and churches.

My full review is on my blog at http://bookwi.se/disunity-in-christ/