Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast: For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & Culture
Episode: The Crowd Needs Faith: Control, Care, Economy, and Race / Willie Jennings and Miroslav Volf
Description: Willie Jennings is Associate Professor of Systematic Theology, Africana Studies, and Religious Studies at Yale University; he is an ordained Baptist minister and is author of The Christian Imagination: Theology and the Origins of Race and Acts: A Commentary, The Revolution of the Intimate.Show NotesWillie Jennings wrote in Acts: A Theological Commentary on the Bible: "The crowd is always susceptible to the fear that ... clothes the creature. The crowd is the creature exposed in its vulnerability. So nationalistic slogan, religious incantation, or enthusiastic cheering are used to conceal this vulnerability. The volume of a cro...