Facing Race: The Gospel in an Ignatian Key

“In this work, Jesuit Roger Haight deftly and trenchantly surveys and probes the complex historical, social, religious, and cultural context within which we would-be disciples of Jesus live and strive to appropriate our Christian faith. While acknowledging that the structural social sin of racism lies both outside and within an individual’s exercise of human freedom, Haight argues for a reorientation of Christian consciousness, conscience, and human living in order to reform our society and our church to reflect the will and rule of God as modeled in the life and ministry of Jesus.”ꟷM. Shawn Copeland, professor emerita of theology, Boston College   “With characteristic precision and theological clarity, Roger Haight finds in the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius the revelatory seeds for enlarging our personal and collective consciousness and releasing human freedom toward the transformation of a racist society. While ‘we are in it, and it is in us,’ Facing Race offers a powerful new fra