In Race: A Theological Account, J. Kameron Carter meditates on the
multiple legacies implicated in the production of a racialized
world and that still mark how we function in it and think about
ourselves. These are the legacies of colonialism and empire,
political theories of the state, anthropological theories of the
human, and philosophy itself, from the eighteenth-century
Enlightenment to the present.
Carter's claim is that Christian theology, and the signal
transformation it (along with Christianity) underwent, is at the
heart of these legacies. In that transformation, Christian
anti-Judaism biologized itself so as to racialize itself. As a
result, and with the legitimation of Christian theology,
Christianity became the cultural property of the West, the
religious ground of white supremacy and global hegemony. In short,
Christianity became white. The racial imagination is thus a
particular kind of theological problem.
Not content only to describe this problem, Carter constructs a way
forward for Christian theology. Through engagement with figures as
disparate in outlook and as varied across the historical landscape
as Immanuel Kant, Frederick Douglass, Jarena Lee, Michel Foucault,
Cornel West, Albert Raboteau, Charles Long, James Cone, Irenaeus of
Lyons, Gregory of Nyssa, and Maximus the Confessor, Carter
reorients the whole of Christian theology, bringing it into the
twenty-first century.
Neither a simple reiteration of Black Theology nor another
expression of the new theological orthodoxies, this groundbreaking
book will be a major contribution to contemporary Christian
theology, with ramifications in other areas of the humanities.
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