Piper’s Christ is a raceless God-man, focused intently on a violent sacrifice that achieves the salvation of our souls with the happy consequence of taking our bodies along for the ride. Hence, the relationship between our bodies, our racial and ethnic particularity, and our salvation seems always to be at odds within Piper’s theological framework. Sadly, Piper does not attend to the writings of black, womanist, or liberation theologians for whom the reality of difference, as it was forced upon them, is always a theological dilemma. Such an oversight is not simply a matter of insufficient research: it highlights the ways Piper has refused to engage in dialogue with different communities as he attempts to imagine what racial harmony could look like. The issue is not that Piper doesn’t agree with the important voices who have a stake in these questions; the issue is that he makes no effort for sincere dialogue with these voices. Piper wants harmony with his view of Christ and the world.
— Brian Bantum, Bloodlines: Race, Cross, and the Christian – A Review
