Black Theology and the Menace of Racial Apocalypse

Lonergan and Racial Reconciliation

AvCyril Orji

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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Beskrivning

Racism evolves. Black theology must be adaptable. For this reason, Black Theology and the Menace of Racial Apocalypse argues that racism must take centre stage in Black theology because racism is an existential dread that inevitably confronts the Black person in their existential situation.This book unfolds in two interwoven steps. First, it delves into the complex history of Black theology, examining its development across its first, second, and third waves. This critical study exposits the discomforting idea that something is missing and that this "something" makes Black theology seem a little deficient, as noted in the pioneering works of James Baldwin and other contemporary thinkers, challenging the hesitation to engage with ideas outside Black experience. The second step draws from multidisciplinary sources, including brain research on cognitive bias and psychological works on implicit bias and microaggressions. Effectively utilizing the methodological work of Bernard Lonergan, the book argues that incorporating "white" sources can enhance Black theology's articulation against racism. In doing so, the book demonstrates how this interpretative mechanism can help overcome societal ideological differences, as well as help meaningfully address the ever-evolving problem of racism for Christian theology.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-08-26
Mått:159 x 235 x 19 mm
Vikt:460 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Lonergan Studies
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:University of Toronto Press
ISBN:9781487558017

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Mer om författaren

Cyril Orji is a professor of systematic theology and world Christianity at the University of Dayton.

Innehållsförteckning

PrefaceAcknowledgmentIntroduction1. The Seven Horse Riders of Racial Apocalypse A Statement of the ProblemRecovering the Heroic Virtues and the Poetic Imagination of James BaldwinNaming the Seven Horse Riders of Racial ApocalypseConclusion2. The Perplexing Matter of Black TheologyContext of Black Theology and the Category of MeaningWhy the American Situation Finds the Term "Black" AppropriateMediating Writers and Theologians(a) James Baldwin(b) James H. Cone(c) J. Deotis Roberts(d) Katie Geneva CannonShift Towards a Second WaveConclusion3. The Nature of Prejudice: A Psychological and Theological UnderstandingWhy Black Theology Has Not Paid Attention to the Data of ConsciousnessPrejudice: A Provisional Judgment?What an Application of Lonergan's Notion of Common Sense to Critical Race Theory Yields for Race DiscourseThe Four Kinds of Common Sense Bias(a) Dramatic Bias(b) Individual Bias(c) Group Bias(d) General Bias of Common SenseThe Structures of SinHow Black Theology Might Appropriate and Use Lonergan's Notion of BiasConclusion4. The Karen Phenomenon and the Conceptualist Problem of White Privilege DiscourseA Truncated DiscourseEngaging the Normative View of White PrivilegeThe COVID-19 World and the Quest for an Explanatory DefinitionKaren and Systemic RacismWhite Privilege: A Theological Problem for Black TheologyConclusion5. Implicit Bias and the Zero-Sum Game ProblemThe Perduring Myth That Blacks Pose a Racial ThreatThe Recurring Problem of Dramatic BiasIt Is Not Microaggression but Dramatic BiasImplicit Bias and the Cycles of Decline: Structural InjusticeConclusion6. Overcoming Racism and ConversionConversion: A Resistance against ResistanceThe Five Dimensional Conversion Process (5D-C Process)(a) Religious Conversion(b) Moral Conversion(c) Intellectual Conversion(d) Affective Conversion(e) Psychic ConversionConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex