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Two Quotes on the Problem of “Christianity” as opposed to Christ

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Erin Grimm

I shared this website with a friend and mentor, a historian of the Christian faith, who wrote one of my favorite books (I loved it when I was in my early thirties), called They Walked in the Spirit. He had two quotations he shared with me:

Frederick Douglass:  “There is a great difference between the Christianity of this land and the Christianity of Christ.”

Howard Thurman:  “It cannot be denied that too often the weight of the Christian movement has been on the side of the strong and powerful, and against the weak and oppressed—this despite the gospel.”​

About Christian Minus Christianity

Christian Minus Christianity is a budding community created to challenge imperialism, nationalism, and racism in many forms of US-American Christianity. It is a work of contextual theology created from the perspective of a white Christian of conscience.

Palestinian theologian Dr. Yousef Kamal AlKhouri, academic dean of Bethlehem Bible College, wrote about this project:

“I do think it’s important to dismantle imperial Christianity in a form, and for the reign of God to liberate the oppressed and God’s entire creation from systems of supremacy, exploitation, and destruction. I also believe that every theologian and Christian are doing theology from their own context, wherever they are. All theologies are contextual.”