The Disease of Supremacy: Diagnosing, Treating, and Healing the Mine of White Supremacy (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789699892394)

The Disease of Supremacy names what many sense but struggle to articulate: that supremacy-racial, cultural, national, economic, and religious-is not merely a social problem or historical error, but a spiritual disease rooted in humanity's rejection of God's governance. Long before race became law and domination became policy, hierarchy entered the human story as a distortion of God's design for mutuality, dignity, and shared stewardship.

Tracing the origins of supremacy from Genesis to empire, from ancient philosophy to American slavery, from church history to modern psychology, this book exposes how domination was normalized, sanctified, and institutionalized-often with the language of faith. Drawing on history, theology, psychology, and lived experience, the author demonstrates that supremacy is sustained not only by laws and systems, but by beliefs, trauma, and spiritual blindness that infect both oppressor and oppressed.

Through careful engagement with thinkers such as Jacqueline Battalora, William Harpham, W.E.B. Du Bois, James Cone, Michelle Alexander, Resmaa Menakem, and others, The Disease of Supremacy reveals how hierarchy became mistaken for divine order, how whiteness was legally invented as a tool of control, and how even moments of spiritual awakening-such as the Azusa Street Revival-were vulnerable to relapse when reconciliation did not mature into justice.

Yet this book is not an indictment without hope. It insists that diagnosis is not condemnation, and that exposure is the first step toward healing. The gospel of Jesus Christ is presented not as an escape from history but as the antidote to the lies of supremacy. Rooted in the ministry of reconciliation, the book calls the church to become a living witness of God's righteousness on earth-rejecting hierarchy, embracing shared dignity, and embodying a Kingdom where leadership is functional, not positional, and power is exercised through love, not domination.

The Disease of Supremacy challenges readers to move beyond denial, despair, and shallow unity toward truth, accountability, healing, and hope. It does not promise a human utopia, but it calls believers to faithful resistance-to live in the world without being of it, bearing witness to a righteousness that does not originate with us and a justice that will one day be fully revealed when God makes all things new.

This is a book for pastors, leaders, scholars, and everyday believers who sense that the church must confront supremacy not only as a social injustice, but as a spiritual disorder-and who are ready to participate in the long, sacred work of healing.