Status Updates From Race: A Theological Account

"the theological problem of whiteness" (379)

"Postlude on Christology and Race: Maximus the Confessor as Anticolonialist Intellectual": "the flesh in which divinity and humanity are conjoined is Jesus' *poor* Jewish flesh... As such, God enters into the hurts of those who suffer so that from inside those hurts, being fully identified with them to the point of communicating his divinity through them, he heals them" (368).

ch. 7 "The Death of Christ: A Theologivla Reading of Frederick Douglass's 1845 Narrative"

"what makes 'white' theology 'white' is that it does not do its work pentecostally... It is unable to speak the truth of the God of Israel in a language--and therefore in a cultural and political orientation--that is not its own... This inability--the stammering of whiteness--leads to a repression of all other identities" (311)

ch 6: "The Birth of Christ"

on Augustine, the Confessions, the nature of autobiography and "A theological reading of Jupiter Hammon's 1760 Narrative"

Interlude on Christology and Race: Gregory of Nyssa as Abolitionist Intellectual

Ch 4, on Charles H. Long; also an important endnote (n. 100) on Aquinas, and a critique/challenge to the “ressourcement” movement of theology, which has largely “utterly evaded” in “an uncritical and ahistorical manner” the “colonialist and racial side to the history” of Thomism.

Ch 4 “Theologizing Race” - on James Cone, and his engagement with Barth and Tillich

Chapter 3 "Historicizing Race" on Albert J. Raboteau, starting with __Slave Religion__, and working through AJR's development as a Black Christian historian. Carter digs deeper than surface level binaries between the "secular" and the "religous" and critiques the fundamental whiteness inherent in both the academy and the seminary.

Chapter 2, on "Modernity, the Jews, and the Theopolitics of Race" -- a deep dive into Kant's philosophy as it relates to politics, religion, and race.

Fascinating chapter on some of the Kantian roots of white supremacy.

"[Kant's] Pragmatic anthropology guides the human being into detachment from worldly goods in order to be a world citizen or one suited to occupy and thus own the entire world" (103) .

Ch. 1 "The Drama of Race: Toward a Theological Account of Modernity" -- on Cornel West, Prophecy Deliverance, and Michel Foucault