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Esau McCaulley

“The question isn’t always which account of Christianity uses the Bible. The question is which does justice to as much of the biblical witness as possible. There are uses of Scripture that utter a false testimony about God. This is what we see in Satan’s use of Scripture in the wilderness. The problem isn’t that the Scriptures that Satan quoted were untrue, but when made to do the work that he wanted them to do, they distorted the biblical witness. This is my claim about the slave master exegesis of the antebellum South. The slave master arrangement of biblical material bore false witness about God. This remains true of quotations of the Bible in our own day that challenge our commitment to the refugee, the poor, and the disinherited.”

Esau McCaulley, Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope
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Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope by Esau McCaulley
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