Dear @DavidAFrench the answer to your question is quite simple. (1) The black church’s Christian identity is grounded in the Old Testament God who liberates the creation, evangelicals begin with Paul and *then* Jesus who’s trying to save people from creation. (2) Eschatology...
(2) Eschatology: evangelicals are still basically fundamentalist and premillennial. The black church’s eschatology is more amillennial (like the Lutherans). (3) Evangelicals are lamenting the loss of a cultural power/influence, esp. in the South, that the black church never had.
Evangelicals in America have never viewed themselves in exile. The Black church always identifies more with exilic Israel than individual Paul-ergo, the black church orients itself around a theology of suffering/hope. Evangelicals, a theology individual salvation/social power.
Finally, so, when you lose social power, you think the world is coming to an end and you start twisting the Bible to make 2 Chron 7:14 about America when it’s not. Spend a year in a black church and you’ll see the difference. Listen to @edeweysmith @pastoremase and @johnfaisonsr
Much, much more I could say.....I wish more evangelicals knew the theology of the black beyond King, Douglass, and Washington.
*black church
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