He’s the author of “GlobalChurch: Reshaping Our Conversations, Renewing Our Mission, Revitalizing Our Churches” (IVP, 2016), and 3 other books. Question One: How is Modern Racial Discourse Theological? (Willie James Jennings arrives at the same conclusion in The Christian Imagination). To set a reading intention, click through to any list item, and look for the panel on the left hand side: The 13-digit and 10-digit formats both work. To achieve this end, Carter engages the writings of Irenaeus of Lyons, Immanuel Kant, Michel Foucault, Cornel West, Gregory of Nyssa, Frederick Douglass, Jarena Lee, Albert Raboteau, Charles Long, James Cone, and Maximus the Confessor. search results for this author. © 2016 All rights reserved. Otherwise, the Christian gospel will not be compelling to those who’ve suffered as a consequence of Christianity’s complicity in our current global crisis in “race-relations.”[15]. I have some issues with where Carter situates the roots of theological anxiety, as all too often we (Carter included) work very hard to blame "boogie men" of various sorts for problems that, unfortunately, are all-too-human. See my engagement with Willie James Jennings’ The Christian Imagination: Theology and the Origins of Race, here. Even my professor who required the book found the book confusing! Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free. The conceptualization of black identity, over against “the theological problem of whiteness” is thematized; other racialized identities are not treated. It could not have come at a better time. RACE: A THEOLOGICAL ACCOUNT AN INTERVIEW WITH J. KAMERON CARTER Adam McInturf* J. Kameron Carter is Associate Professor of Theology and Black Church Studies at Duke Divinity School. 2. Copyright © 2019 The Global Church Project Ltd | Terms & Conditions | Privacy Policy | Website by Endure Web Studios. Seminal work; hard to read, but worth it. It’s either made invisible, or it’s made exotic. © 2020 The Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society The Episcopal Church, 815 Second Avenue, New York, NY 10017 212-716-6000 | 800-334-7626 | Privacy Policy Adam McInturf is an inventory manager at Windows Booksellers in Portland, Oregon, and a recent graduate of Multnomah Biblical Seminary. The Christian Imagination: Theology and the Origins of Race, The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism, After Whiteness: An Education in Belonging (Theological Education between the Times), Acts: A Theological Commentary on the Bible (Belief: A Theological Commentary on the Bible), Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope, Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, and Being (Intersections in African American Theology) (Innovations, African American Religious Thought). Race: A Theological Account Hardcover – Sept. 15 2008 by J. Kameron Carter (Author) 4.2 out of 5 stars 12 ratings. Stanford Libraries' official online search tool for books, media, journals, databases, government documents and more. Race: A Theological Account by Carter, J. Kameron at AbeBooks.co.uk - ISBN 10: 0195152794 - ISBN 13: 9780195152791 - OUP USA - 2008 - Hardcover There's a problem loading this menu right now. Carter shows how “the discourse of theology aided and abetted the processes by which “man” came to be viewed as a modern, racial being. The Franklin Humanities Institute and Duke University Libraries presented a Faculty Bookwatch panel on J. Kameron Carter's Race: A Theological Account (Oxford UP, 2008) on February 4, 2009. It gave birth to notions of whiteness and blackness. This book has been really eye opening for me. Reviewed in the United States on March 2, 2015. It could not have come at a better time. “What happened to theology as a discourse that allowed it to become a racial discourse?” What are the steps that occurred that allowed theology to become racialized? “Hence, the racial imagination (the first step) proved as well to be a racist imagination of white supremacy (the second step).”[6]. But it does mean paying attention to voices that challenge and subvert and reimagine Christian thought, character, theology, identity, and practice. They help us address our current problem with “race.” But, more than that, they are “ways of narrating being beyond race, despite the surrounding world’s persistence in holding them and itself hostage [to notions of racialized identity and white, Western supremacy].”[18]. This text should be read and dealt with by all scholars of religion and all those working in the church in the United States. The great drama of religion: modernity, the Jews, and the theopolitics of race -- Part II. “In what ways is modern racial discourse theological in character?” What are the theological roots of the idea of race? Copying and republishing this article on other Web sites, or in any other place, without written permission is prohibited. And it’s one that’s being examined by such disciplines as biology, genetics, philosophy, history, political science, economics, feminism, cultural and postcolonial studies, and more. Engaging Race: The Field of African American Religious Studies: -- 3. Reviewed in the United States on April 1, 2017. What stages led theology into aiding and abetting racial views of humanity? Their theological imaginations and Christian practices can no longer be invisible, or seen as irrelevant. “Therefore, as a twenty-first-century discourse, Christian theology must take its bearings from the Christian theological languages and practices that arise from the lived Christian worlds of dark peoples in modernity and how such peoples reclaimed (and in their own ways salvaged) the language of Christianity, and thus Christian theology, from being a discourse of death—their death.”[16]. Carter proposes a “new theological imagination for the twenty-first century, one that sutures the gap between Christianity and its Jewish roots and thereby reimagines Christian (intellectual) identity.”[8] This is a radical, much-needed reorientation of Christianity in the twenty-first century. Race : a theological account / J. 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