Reclaiming the Radical Revolutionary (American Academy of Religion, Religious Studies podcast)

Discussion of the book The Politics of Jesus: Rediscovering the True Revolutionary Nature of Jesus' Teachings and How They Have Been Corrupted 

What the book is about: Who was Jesus? And how was this first-century political revolutionary, whose teachings are meant to lead the way to freedom, turned into a meek and mild servant of the status quo? How is it possible to profess a belief in Jesus, yet ignore the suffering of the poor and the needy? Just how truly faithful to the vision of Jesus are the many politicians who claim to be Christian? These are the kinds of questions Obery Hendricks, a biblical scholar, activist, and minister, asks in this provocative new book. In this day and age of heated political debate, Hendricks’s The Politics of Jesus stands out as much for its brilliant re-creation of the life and mind of Jesus of Nazareth as for its scathing critique of modern politicians “of faith.”

Celebrating the Ten-Year Anniversary of Obery Hendricks' "The Politics of Jesus"
November 19, 2016
American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting
San Antonio, Texas

Panelists:
Eboni Marshall Turman, Yale University
Jesse Jackson, Operation Push, Chicago, IL
Nyasha Junior, Temple University
Gary Dorrien, Columbia University, Union Theological Seminary
Keri Day, Brite Divinity School
Michael Eric Dyson, Georgetown University

Responding:
Obery M. Hendricks, Columbia University

Presiding:
Andre E. Johnson, University of Memphis
Interview:
https://youtu.be/pxqDefOECxQ