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This article is a review of the book — Race: A Theological Account

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J. Kameron Carter’s Race: A Theological Account breaks new ground in contemporary theology; Carter’s contention is that the problem of race is first and foremost a theological problem. Indeed in some sense, the problem of race is modern theology’s greatest contemporary challenge. Carter goes beyond the familiar platitudes about white racism, unveiling a promising post-colonial trajectory for contemporary Christian theology.

He tackles this problem directly through a theological meditation on Jesus’ Jewish flesh. Reflecting on Jesus’ Jewishness exposes the whiteness of modernity and hails a new creation where all people are reconciled and redeemed, regardless of their race and ethnicity. This truth emerges in its clearest form in the slave narratives of prophetic black Christians in antebellum America. It was by reflecting on the human life of Jesus the Jew that Africans in the Americas were able to find meaning in their suffering under the oppressive regime of slavery and segregation.

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Carter’s bold vision stands as a challenge to black and white theological projects alike. He calls black theologians to drop essentialist notions of blackness in order to center their racial critique in what is distinctively Christian about their Christian identity. Carter calls white theologians to confession and repentance; by identifying the idol of whiteness in Christian modernity, white theologians can begin to relinquish their power and privilege through a deep engagement with a prophetic stream of black Christianity that has been rendered invisible in traditional theology.

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