So, (making certain I understand) when English puritan Paul Bayne uses the idea of “white” (read whiteness) to identify internal and external obedience in his 1643 treatment of Ephesians, he’s all Marxist, postmodern, and incompatible with the gospel, right? #criticalracetheory
What about Bostonian puritan Cotton Mather when he makes a similar move in “A Good Master Well Served” (1696) or “The Negro Christianized” (1706)?
And, sure, such a list of such puritans and later evangelicals and their sermons/treatises could easily grow, including Sewall, Whitefield, and Edwards among others (hell, I wrote a book about them/it). They do some hard thinking.
They wrestle with grasping their scriptures in light of their respective societies, illustrating @DavidDark’s claim that the Bible is #criticalracetheory.
In the end, though, to quote a famous antiracist and critical theorist “he who has ears to hear, let him hear.”
In the end, though, to quote a famous antiracist and critical theorist “he who has ears to hear, let him hear.”
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