The Comfortable Sin (Paperback)
Idioma: inglés
Editorial: Ephraim Gwebu, 2026
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Paperback. Some sins are preached against loudly. Others are preached around quietly. This book is about the second kind.Racism and tribalism have found a home inside the Church - not in spite of the Gospel, but beneath its canopy of silence. They are tolerated where they should be confronted, explained where they should be confessed, and called culture where they should be called sin. The Comfortable Sin names what the Church has chosen, for too long, not to name.Drawing on neuroscience, Scripture, and the hard-won witness of a scholar who resigned a Vice Chancellorship rather than yield to tribal pressure, Ephraim T. Gwebu, PhD, traces racism and tribalism to their single theological root - the pride of origin - and argues that they are not two problems but one disease wearing two cultural faces.The book proceeds in four movements. Part One diagnoses the disease at its theological and neurological roots, showing how mirror neuron systems in the human brain transmit the comfortable sin from one generation to the next through the embodied attitudes of trusted adults - below the level of conscious instruction. Part Two opens the Scriptures and demonstrates that the biblical witness, from Genesis to Revelation, is unambiguous: God has no favoured race, no preferred tribe, no ethnic hierarchy. The Gospel that Christ proclaimed was a direct assault on every form of human superiority. Part Three situates the argument in the African context - examining Rwanda's witness, the structural tribalism of African church governance, the colonial formation of the tribal pastor, and the author's personal testimony across Zimbabwe, Zambia, and the United States. Part Four names the institutionalisation of the comfortable sin with precision - examining the racial architecture of the American church, the tribal architecture of the African church, and the electoral demarcation that renews both in every governance cycle - before calling the Church to structural repentance.This book is written for African pastors and church leaders who have seen the wound firsthand; for seminary students and theological educators who must reckon with what formation actually transmits; and for Western Christian readers willing to hear a prophetic voice from the continent that has suffered both sins most acutely. It integrates mirror neuron research, Ubuntu philosophy, and rigorous biblical exegesis into a sustained argument that the comfortable sin has an antidote - and that the antidote is the Gospel, applied without exception to the pride of every origin.The foreword is by Rev. Dr. Ishmael Noko, former President of the Lutheran World Federation. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…
N° de ref. del artículo 9798235001329
- Título
- The Comfortable Sin (Paperback)
- Autor
- Ephraim Gwebu
- Editorial
- Ephraim Gwebu
- Año de publicación
- 2026
- Estado
- new
- Encuadernación
- Paperback
- Idioma
- inglés
- ISBN 13
- 9798235001329
Some sins are preached against loudly. Others are preached around quietly. This book is about the second kind.
Racism and tribalism have found a home inside the Church - not in spite of the Gospel, but beneath its canopy of silence. They are tolerated where they should be confronted, explained where they should be confessed, and called culture where they should be called sin. The Comfortable Sin names what the Church has chosen, for too long, not to name.
Drawing on neuroscience, Scripture, and the hard-won witness of a scholar who resigned a Vice Chancellorship rather than yield to tribal pressure, Ephraim T. Gwebu, PhD, traces racism and tribalism to their single theological root - the pride of origin - and argues that they are not two problems but one disease wearing two cultural faces.
The book proceeds in four movements. Part One diagnoses the disease at its theological and neurological roots, showing how mirror neuron systems in the human brain transmit the comfortable sin from one generation to the next through the embodied attitudes of trusted adults - below the level of conscious instruction. Part Two opens the Scriptures and demonstrates that the biblical witness, from Genesis to Revelation, is unambiguous: God has no favoured race, no preferred tribe, no ethnic hierarchy. The Gospel that Christ proclaimed was a direct assault on every form of human superiority. Part Three situates the argument in the African context - examining Rwanda's witness, the structural tribalism of African church governance, the colonial formation of the tribal pastor, and the author's personal testimony across Zimbabwe, Zambia, and the United States. Part Four names the institutionalisation of the comfortable sin with precision - examining the racial architecture of the American church, the tribal architecture of the African church, and the electoral demarcation that renews both in every governance cycle - before calling the Church to structural repentance.
This book is written for African pastors and church leaders who have seen the wound firsthand; for seminary students and theological educators who must reckon with what formation actually transmits; and for Western Christian readers willing to hear a prophetic voice from the continent that has suffered both sins most acutely. It integrates mirror neuron research, Ubuntu philosophy, and rigorous biblical exegesis into a sustained argument that the comfortable sin has an antidote - and that the antidote is the Gospel, applied without exception to the pride of every origin.
The foreword is by Rev. Dr. Ishmael Noko, former President of the Lutheran World Federation.
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