Saving Jesus: From Those Who Are Right, Second Edition

First published twenty-five years ago and continually in print, Carter Heyward's Saving Jesus remains a pioneering political Christology, intended to reframe our understanding of Jesus, his person, and his import, in light of contemporary culture, especially the rise of the Christian right.

The book also employs the insights of liberation theologies—Latin American, feminist, Black theology—to offer a critical assessment of traditional Christology, a more relevant picture of Jesus and redemp...