![]() ![]() This is not an insular project though, it is a dialogical one. What makes Black interpretation Black, then, are the collective experiences, customs, and habits of Black people in this country. Stated differently, everybody has been reading the Bible from their locations, but we are honest about it. McCaulley makes the further case that in fact: These are a general agreement on a certain reading of American history that downplayed injustice and a gentlemen’s agreement to remain largely silent on current issues of racism and systemic injustice. ![]() I learned that too often alongside the four pillars of evangelicalism outlined above there were unspoken fifth and sixth pillars. McCaulley sums up some of his early discomfort with white evangelicalism like this: In particular, the holding together of a profound public/social/political witness, alongside theological 'conservatism' expressed in Black language, not in the jargon of the White traditions. McCaulley grew up in the South, and he uses the analogy of how Southern hip-hop had a position that was neither East Coast nor West Coast, but a third thing, to articulate how he himself grew into faith, through college and then seminary, and the Black Ecclesial Tradition (as he terms it), neither beholden to White Protestantism in its Conservative nor its Progressive forms. ![]() The book begins by articulating its location, and its author's location. ![]()
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