Gerald McDermott

Gerald R. McDermott is retired from the Anglican Chair of Divinity at Beeson Divinity School. The author, co-author, or editor of more than 20 books, his co-authored Theology of Jonathan Edwards (Oxford University Press) was Christianity Today’s Book of the Year in Theology and Ethics for 2013.

Posts by Gerald McDermott

November 04, 2020

Race and covenant: recovering the religious roots of American reconciliation

In January 1862, Frederick Douglass, a former slave who became America’s greatest sociopolitical prophet of the nineteenth century, declared that America was facing Armageddon. “The fate of the greatest of all Modern Republics trembles in the balance.” Continue Reading...