A panoramic cultural and legal history that traces the roots of
antisemitism and racism to early Christian theology Since the
earliest days of Christianity, theologians expressed pervasive
anxiety about Jews as equal members of society, and, with European
expansion in the early modern period, that anxiety extended to
people of color. This troubling legacy still haunts us today.
Christian Supremacy demonstrates how theological and legal
frameworks created by the church centuries ago laid the seeds of
antisemitism and anti-Black racism and reveals why Christian
identity lies at the heart of the world’s violent white supremacy
movements. In a powerful historical narrative spanning nearly two
millennia, Magda Teter describes how Christian theology of late
antiquity cast Jews as “children born to slavery,” and how the
supposed theological inferiority of Jews became inscribed into law,
creating tangible structures that reinforced a sense of Christian
domination and superiority. With the dawn of European colonialism,
a distinct brand of European Christian supremacy found expression
in the legally sanctioned enslavement and exploitation of people of
color, later taking the form of white Christian supremacy in the
New World. Drawing on a wealth of primary evidence ranging from the
theological and legal to the philosophical and artistic, Christian
Supremacy is a profound reckoning with history that traces the
roots of the modern rejection of Jewish and Black equality to an
enduring Christian heritage of exclusion, intolerance, and
persecution.
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