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Race, The Reflections of a Theologian
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Published January 1, 1964
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January 20, 2026
Overall, this book is helpful for anyone looking into the Race question and its connections to Catholicism but it’s really a terrible theological guide which repeats loads of modernist, secular rubbish and just rewords it in complicated Catholic terminology.
He basically follows that Race is a product of our environment, that was wrong even in his time and is even more wrong now with the advances of genetics. Then he says that things are too complicated to be able to study hereditary characteristics in the different races and we can’t study the differences between races, which is also totally wrong. That’s just an excuse the modernists give so that they can hold onto their egalitarian delusions because they know any serious study of Race would lead to the conclusion that they don’t like - race is real and it’s a concrete biological reality.
He’s also an evolutionist, theological modernist, constantly quoting and praising Pope John 23rd and the rest of the modernists. He uses overly complicated language to sound like he’s making an important point when basically all he’s saying is “Race’s seem to be real and we can’t deny that they exist but we also need to pretend that they’re flexible, and they can’t be compared to each other or else that’s racist.”
His analysis of the Genesis 10 table of Nations is utterly wrong, filled with modernist-science errors like: belief in a local flood, belief in an evolution of mankind from primitive Hominids, belief in an in-exhaustive table of Nations, and in an old earth and non-biblical timeline.
He also believes in a cultural relativism, that no culture is better than other simply because racial diversity has to be a good thing all the time in all circumstances, according to him. And the peculiarities of each race have to be objectively good and beneficial to the others simply because they are original. So when an Indian expresses his original cultural habit of pooing on the floor in a shopping center the European has to bow down and appreciate this act because of its uniqueness which enriches his culture. It’s just multiculturalism written by a theologian.
With that being said, there are many interesting facts and historical details and references he mentions which can help find valuable information for anyone studying this topic, something which is very hard to find and not many people have compiled the information as nicely as this author has. But it isn’t exhaustive and he is selective with what he mentions. He doesn’t give a timeline on the history of the Catholic perspective of Race or anything like that, but that would have been really helpful. You’ll get nice references to the perspective of Race in colonial South America and some of the missionaries in China but that’s about it.
It’s a short book, only 150 pages, to get the best out of it just skim read the theological exegesis but pay attention to the primary references.
He basically follows that Race is a product of our environment, that was wrong even in his time and is even more wrong now with the advances of genetics. Then he says that things are too complicated to be able to study hereditary characteristics in the different races and we can’t study the differences between races, which is also totally wrong. That’s just an excuse the modernists give so that they can hold onto their egalitarian delusions because they know any serious study of Race would lead to the conclusion that they don’t like - race is real and it’s a concrete biological reality.
He’s also an evolutionist, theological modernist, constantly quoting and praising Pope John 23rd and the rest of the modernists. He uses overly complicated language to sound like he’s making an important point when basically all he’s saying is “Race’s seem to be real and we can’t deny that they exist but we also need to pretend that they’re flexible, and they can’t be compared to each other or else that’s racist.”
His analysis of the Genesis 10 table of Nations is utterly wrong, filled with modernist-science errors like: belief in a local flood, belief in an evolution of mankind from primitive Hominids, belief in an in-exhaustive table of Nations, and in an old earth and non-biblical timeline.
He also believes in a cultural relativism, that no culture is better than other simply because racial diversity has to be a good thing all the time in all circumstances, according to him. And the peculiarities of each race have to be objectively good and beneficial to the others simply because they are original. So when an Indian expresses his original cultural habit of pooing on the floor in a shopping center the European has to bow down and appreciate this act because of its uniqueness which enriches his culture. It’s just multiculturalism written by a theologian.
With that being said, there are many interesting facts and historical details and references he mentions which can help find valuable information for anyone studying this topic, something which is very hard to find and not many people have compiled the information as nicely as this author has. But it isn’t exhaustive and he is selective with what he mentions. He doesn’t give a timeline on the history of the Catholic perspective of Race or anything like that, but that would have been really helpful. You’ll get nice references to the perspective of Race in colonial South America and some of the missionaries in China but that’s about it.
It’s a short book, only 150 pages, to get the best out of it just skim read the theological exegesis but pay attention to the primary references.
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