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Does the Bible have something to say about the Black experience in America? To injustice, to inequality, to inequity, to police brutality, to racism, to protests? Yes.
Esau McCaulley, an ordained Anglican priest and a professor of New Testament at Wheaton College, undertakes a rigorous exegesis of scripture to show the reader that yes, in fact the Bible has plenty to say about those current, and not so current issues. And McCaulley does this through the lens of the Black ecclesial interpretation.
Skeptical? Read the book.
Some of my favorite quotes.
"There are uses of Scripture that utter a false testimony about God. This is what we see in Satan’s use of Scripture in the wilderness. The problem isn’t that the Scriptures that Satan quoted were untrue, but when made to do the work that he wanted them to do, they distorted the biblical witness. This is my claim about the slave master exegesis of the antebellum South. The slave master arrangement of biblical material bore false witness about God. This remains true of quotations of the Bible in our own day that challenge our commitment to the refugee, the poor, and the disinherited.”
“Protest is not unbiblical; it is a manifestation of our analysis of the human condition in light of God’s own word and vision for the future.”
“Peacemaking, then, cannot be separated from truth telling. The church’s witness does not involve simply denouncing the excesses of both sides and making moral equivalencies. It involves calling injustice by its name. If the church is going to be on the side of peace in the United States, then there has to be an honest accounting of what this country has done and continues to do to Black and Brown people. Moderation or the middle ground is not always the loci of righteousness.”
“God’s vision for his people is not for the elimination of ethnicity to form a colorblind uniformity of sanctified blandness. Instead God sees the creation of a community of different cultures united by faith in his Son as a manifestation of the expansive nature of his grace. This expansiveness is unfulfilled unless the differences are seen and celebrated, not as ends unto themselves, but as particular manifestations of the power of the Spirit to bring forth the same holiness among different peoples and cultures for the glory of God.”
Esau McCaulley, an ordained Anglican priest and a professor of New Testament at Wheaton College, undertakes a rigorous exegesis of scripture to show the reader that yes, in fact the Bible has plenty to say about those current, and not so current issues. And McCaulley does this through the lens of the Black ecclesial interpretation.
Skeptical? Read the book.
Some of my favorite quotes.
"There are uses of Scripture that utter a false testimony about God. This is what we see in Satan’s use of Scripture in the wilderness. The problem isn’t that the Scriptures that Satan quoted were untrue, but when made to do the work that he wanted them to do, they distorted the biblical witness. This is my claim about the slave master exegesis of the antebellum South. The slave master arrangement of biblical material bore false witness about God. This remains true of quotations of the Bible in our own day that challenge our commitment to the refugee, the poor, and the disinherited.”
“Protest is not unbiblical; it is a manifestation of our analysis of the human condition in light of God’s own word and vision for the future.”
“Peacemaking, then, cannot be separated from truth telling. The church’s witness does not involve simply denouncing the excesses of both sides and making moral equivalencies. It involves calling injustice by its name. If the church is going to be on the side of peace in the United States, then there has to be an honest accounting of what this country has done and continues to do to Black and Brown people. Moderation or the middle ground is not always the loci of righteousness.”
“God’s vision for his people is not for the elimination of ethnicity to form a colorblind uniformity of sanctified blandness. Instead God sees the creation of a community of different cultures united by faith in his Son as a manifestation of the expansive nature of his grace. This expansiveness is unfulfilled unless the differences are seen and celebrated, not as ends unto themselves, but as particular manifestations of the power of the Spirit to bring forth the same holiness among different peoples and cultures for the glory of God.”