A raceless God-man?

Brian Bantum, a theologian at Seattle Pacific, was mentioned in the Century's recent article on the new black theology. Readers intrigued by that topic will be interested in Bantum's comments on a book on racial reconciliation written by a white Minneapolis preacher, John Piper.

Piper is a rather unexpected figure to address this issue, being best known as an ultra-Reformed defender of God's sovereignty, which for Piper entails insisting that God directs the path of tornadoes and oversees the collapse of bridges.

Anyway, Piper apparently asserts in his book Bloodlines: Race, Cross and the Christian, that racial differences don't matter in God's work of electing people to salvation, and that the power of racial difference has been overcome in the cross.