Conclusion

2020 ◽  
pp. 161-166
Author(s):  
Kristopher Norris
Keyword(s):  
White Supremacy ◽  
Biblical Language ◽  
The Church ◽  
Taking Responsibility

The Conclusion begins by asking whether there is any hope in and for our whiteness. It argues that the answer must be no. The no that we must utter to our whiteness is the only sign of hope to which we can cling. It is a hope that emerges from the painful practices of remembrance, repentance, and reparation, but it is the only hope capable of challenging our bondage to white supremacy. It concludes by briefly analyzing biblical language of the church and demonstrating the ways these metaphors push white Christians to do the difficult work of taking responsibility for our white supremacy.

The Not-So-New Southern Religion

2019 ◽  
pp. 225-258
Author(s):  
Angie Maxwell ◽  
Todd Shields
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
White Identity ◽  
The South ◽  
White Southerners ◽  
Southern Religion ◽  
White Voters ◽  
Sacred Canopy ◽  
The Church ◽  
Evangelical Protestant

In an effort to win southern white voters, the GOP embraced the old southern religion turning the church faithful into the party loyal. They did so because in many parts of the South, the church remains the central institution defining, organizing, and politicizing its surrounding community. A “sacred canopy” drapes over the region, where there is a common cosmology that is intractable from southern white identity, including its reverence for white supremacy and patriarchy. In general, as a block, white southerners were more evangelical, Protestant, fundamentalist, and moralist than the rest of the country. The not-so-new southern religiosity satisfies an appetite for certainty, conformity, and even social status. As a means to solidify southern white support, the Long Southern Strategy framed southern white Christianity as under attack and cast the GOP as its protector, the price of which is increased cultural defensiveness, anxiety, fear, and distrust.

Hocus Totus: The Elusive Wholeness of Christ

Pro Ecclesia ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-42
Author(s):  
Kevin J. Vanhoozer
Keyword(s):  
Important Case ◽  
Conceptual Coherence ◽  
Mystical Union ◽  
Biblical Language ◽  
Catholic Tradition ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Way

This article responds to David Moser’s essay commending the Totus Christus to Protestants who wish to be biblical, identify with the catholic tradition, and speak truly about the Church. The article recognizes the Totus Christus as an important case study of the relationship between Christology and ecclesiology. The article evaluates Moser’s case in three movements: first, by examining the way in which biblical language of Christ as the “head” of the Church “body” has been interpreted by Augustine and others; second, by comparing and contrasting the Reformed (soteriological) emphasis on mystical union with the Roman (ecclesiological) emphasis on mystical body; third, by examining the metaphysics of the Totus Christus and, in particular, the conceptual coherence of claiming that the Totus Christus designates a “united person” with “two subjects” that are “distinct in their being.” The article concludes by asking about the practical consequences of accepting the Totus Christus, and by noting that the Totus Christus never did receive the necessary creedal support commensurate with catholic doctrine.

scholarly journals Francis of Rome & Francis of Assisi: A New Springtime for the Church; The Sin of White Supremacy: Christianity, Racism, and Religious Diversity in America; The Cross in Contexts: Suffering and Redemption in Palestine

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 274-278
Author(s):  
Nindyo Sasongko
Keyword(s):  
White Supremacy ◽  
Religious Diversity ◽  
The Cross ◽  
The Church ◽  
Francis Of Assisi

A book review of three books: Francis of Rome & Francis of Assisi, The Sin of White Supremacy, and The Cross in Contexts.

The Color Line, Race, and Caste: Structures of Domination and the Ethics of Recognition

2021 ◽  
Vol 82 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-94
Author(s):  
James F. Keenan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Color Line ◽  
Systemic Racism ◽  
Black Lives Matter ◽  
Ethics Of Recognition ◽  
The Church

The Black Lives Matter movement has been trying to awaken the rest of the United States to its failure to recognize systemic racism, anti-blackness, and white supremacy. With a keen awareness of racism as structural, this article first considers the pervasiveness of systemic racism in the church and then investigates how in the United States anti-blackness was first documented as the color line, then as racism, and now as caste. Recognizing these social structures, it concludes by considering virtues and practices that could help in decentering the dominant caste in its expression of white supremacy.

scholarly journals Race and Resurrection

2020 ◽  
Vol 77 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-46
Author(s):  
Kristopher Norris
Keyword(s):  
White Supremacy ◽  
The Body ◽  
Body Of Christ ◽  
1 Corinthians ◽  
Theology Of The Body ◽  
The Church

This essay argues that Paul’s discourses in 1 Corinthians 12 and 15 concerning the church as the Body of Christ and the resurrection of the body offer a biblical challenge to colorblind white supremacy when read in conversation with feminist and womanist theologians. Reading Paul through feminist and womanist treatments of the body and trauma provides a nuanced theology of the body and a complex account of the concrete wounds of white supremacy while also presenting theological and ethical resources for resisting colorblindness.

Racialized Humility: The White Supremacist Sainthood of Peter Claver, SJ

Horizons ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 295-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katie M. Grimes
Keyword(s):  
White Supremacy ◽  
Slave Trade ◽  
Black Americans ◽  
White Supremacist ◽  
Patron Saint ◽  
Saint Martin ◽  
The Church

Peter Claver is commonly remembered as a patron saint of ministry to black Americans as well as the “saint of the slave trade.” Partially by comparing him with Saint Martin de Porres, the only African-descended American saint, this article argues that rather than lauding Claver as a racial hero, we ought to recognize him as deeply complicit in the sins of white supremacy. This article aims to help the church more honestly reckon with its white supremacist past.

scholarly journals The Challenge of Biography: Reading Theologians in Light of their Breached Sexual Ethics

2021 ◽  
pp. 095394682110594
Author(s):  
Sarah Shin
Keyword(s):  
White Supremacy ◽  
Correct Diagnosis ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Institutional Practices ◽  
Sexual Crimes ◽  
Institutional Practice ◽  
Stanley Hauerwas ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Church

Though their biographies vastly differ, Karl Barth's long-term extra-marital relationship with Charlotte von Kirschbaum and John H. Yoder's sexual crimes have been the focus of a range of reactions and proposed approaches on how to read the theology of the two theologians given their biographies. This article will examine those critical responses using an analytical framework appropriated from Sameer Yadav's work on cognate conversations about locating and remedying the causes of white supremacy in the church: are the problems due to problematic theology, problematic institutional practice, or both? A correct diagnosis helps the theologian to then propose the right remedy. This adapted framework will be applied to the cases of Barth and Yoder to critically examine how Steven Plant and Rachel Muers respond to Barth's biography and how Stanley Hauerwas and Hilary Scarsella respond to Yoder's biography. After demonstrating how the different respondents address the issue as one primarily of problematic theology or problematic institutional practices, I will argue that it is both theology and practice that must be addressed in order to satisfactorily deal with the reality and scale of infection when it comes to influential theologians. Sample treatments will be offered for responding to Barth's and Yoder's biographies.

Spiritual Healing, Sick Kids and the Law: Inequities in the American Healthcare System

2003 ◽  
Vol 29 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 269-299
Author(s):  
Janna C. Merrick
Keyword(s):  
Medical Science ◽  
Spiritual Healing ◽  
Best Interests ◽  
Legal Rights ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Divine Love ◽  
Religious Minority ◽  
Human Need ◽  
East End ◽  
The Church

Main Street in Sarasota, Florida. A high-tech medical arts building rises from the east end, the county's historic three-story courthouse is two blocks to the west and sandwiched in between is the First Church of Christ, Scientist. A verse inscribed on the wall behind the pulpit of the church reads: “Divine Love Always Has Met and Always Will Meet Every Human Need.” This is the church where William and Christine Hermanson worshipped. It is just a few steps away from the courthouse where they were convicted of child abuse and third-degree murder for failing to provide conventional medical care for their seven-year-old daughter.This Article is about the intersection of “divine love” and “the best interests of the child.” It is about a pluralistic society where the dominant culture reveres medical science, but where a religious minority shuns and perhaps fears that same medical science. It is also about the struggle among different religious interests to define the legal rights of the citizenry.

Ideas and Leaders in Contentious Politics: One Parish Priest in El Salvador's Popular Movement

2014 ◽  
Vol 38 (01) ◽  
pp. 76-101
Author(s):  
PETER M. SANCHEZ
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
El Salvador ◽  
Liberation Theology ◽  
Contentious Politics ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Political Movement ◽  
Parish Priest ◽  
Historical Moment ◽  
Resource Mobilisation ◽  
The Church

AbstractThis paper examines the actions of one Salvadorean priest – Padre David Rodríguez – in one parish – Tecoluca – to underscore the importance of religious leadership in the rise of El Salvador's contentious political movement that began in the early 1970s, when the guerrilla organisations were only just beginning to develop. Catholic leaders became engaged in promoting contentious politics, however, only after the Church had experienced an ideological conversion, commonly referred to as liberation theology. A focus on one priest, in one parish, allows for generalisation, since scores of priests, nuns and lay workers in El Salvador followed the same injustice frame and tactics that generated extensive political mobilisation throughout the country. While structural conditions, collective action and resource mobilisation are undoubtedly necessary, the case of religious leaders in El Salvador suggests that ideas and leadership are of vital importance for the rise of contentious politics at a particular historical moment.

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