J. Kameron Carter’s Race: A Theological Account breaks new ground in contemporary theology; Carter’s contention is that the problem of race is first and foremost a theological problem. Indeed in some sense, the problem of race is modern theology’s greatest contemporary challenge. Carter goes beyond the familiar platitudes about white racism, unveiling a promising post-colonial trajectory for contemporary Christian theology.
He tackles this problem directly through a theological meditation on Jesus’ Jewish flesh. Reflecting on Jesus’ Jewishness exposes the whiteness of modernity and hails a new creation where all people are reconciled and redeemed, regardless of their race and ethnicity. This truth emerges in its clearest form in the slave narratives of prophetic black Christians in antebellum America. It was by reflecting on the human life of Jesus the Jew that Africans in the Americas were able to find meaning in their suffering under the oppressive regime of slavery and segregation.
J. Kameron Carter’s Race: A Theological Account breaks new ground in contemporary theology; Carter’s contention is that the problem of race is first and foremost a theological problem. Indeed in some sense, the problem of race is modern theology’s greatest contemporary challenge. Carter goes beyond the familiar platitudes about white racism, unveiling a promising post-colonial trajectory for contemporary Christian theology.
He tackles this problem directly through a theological meditation on Jesus’ Jewish flesh. Reflecting on Jesus’ Jewishness exposes the whiteness of modernity and hails a new creation where all people are reconciled and redeemed, regardless of their race and ethnicity. This truth emerges in its clearest form in the slave narratives of prophetic black Christians in antebellum America. It was by reflecting on the human life of Jesus the Jew that Africans in the Americas were able to find meaning in their suffering under the oppressive regime of slavery and segregation.
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