Towards a Critical White Theology is a landmark text bringing together contributions from scholars and practitioners, Black/Postcolonial theologians and critical White theologians, from the UK, the USA and New Zealand, exposing the dynamics of whiteness in the history and the present of the Christian church, and setting an agenda for the future, especially for White-racialised theologians committed to dismantling whiteness. With sections addressing whiteness in relation to the Bible, church history, education and mission, congregational life, the contemporary USA, and public theology, this book tracks the emerging of a new theological discipline of Critical White Theology, that consciously follows in the wake of the long-established discipline of Black liberation theology. It acknowledges that so much that has passed for ‘theology’ over the centuries has been White Theology without naming it as such, and reaches out to its Black and Postcolonial theologian siblings in repentant, receptive humility and hopeful solidarity for a future liberated from the toxic sin of racism. The chapters in this book were originally published in Practical Theology and Black Theology.
Towards a Critical White Theology is a landmark text bringing together contributions from scholars and practitioners, Black/Postcolonial theologians and critical White theologians, exposing the dynamics of whiteness in the history and the present of the Christian church, and setting an agenda for the future.
Introduction Towards a Critical White Theology: Dismantling Whiteness?
1. Borderline: Reading Mark 7:24-30 as a White Woman
2. One Body, Many Parts:
A Reading of 1 Corinthians 12:12-27
3. Tangled Roots: the Legacy of Christian
Mastery and Anti-Racism Today
4. The Christian Settler Imaginary: Repentant
Remembrances of Christianitys Entanglement with Settler Colonialism in
Aotearoa New Zealand
5. Between Jim Crow and the Swastika: African American
Religio-Cultural Interpretations of the Holocaust
6. Contending for the
Cross: Black Theology and the Ghosts of Modernity
7. Castros Negra/os
8. The
Politics of Prayer: White American Catholicism and Negro Sainthood
9. Ecce
Homo? Beholding Missions White Gaze
10. Encountering our Own Whiteness: an
Autoethnographic Conversation on the Experience of Putting Together a Journal
Issue around Mission, Race and Colonialism
11. God and my Whiteness: a
Personal Theo-Biography
12. Teaching for Globalized Consciousness: Black
Professor, White Student and Shame
13. Dismantling my Whiteness
14. A Tale of
Two Cities: Implicit Assumptions and Mission Strategies in Black and White
Majority Churches
15. Interrogating Whiteness through the Lens of Class in
Britain: Empire, Entitlement and Exceptionalism
16. Whiteness in
Congregational Life: an Ethnographic Study of one Ethnically-Diverse
Congregation in the UK
17. The Utter Failure of White Religion: W.E.B.
Dubois The Souls of White Folk and the Challenge of Dismantling Whiteness
in the (Post-)Trump Era
18. Back to a White Future: White Religious Loss,
Donald Trump, and the Problem of Belonging
19. Making America Great Again?
An Essay on The Weightier Matters of The Law: Justice and Mercy and Faith
20. Citizenship in Jesus and the Disinherited: From Black Internationalism to
Whiteness on the Contemporary Border
21. Reimagining the White Surveillance
Gaze: A Practical Theological Proposal for Repentant and Solidaristic
Engagement
22. The Problems of the White Ethnic Majority Revisited: a
Personal, Theological and Political Review
23. To Resist the Gravity of
Whiteness: Communicating Racialized Suffering and Creating Paschal Community
through an Analogia Vulneris
24. James Cones Constructive Vision of Sin and
the Black Lives Matter Movement
25. Dismantling Whiteness: a Rationale
26.
Dismantling Whiteness: a Response Conclusion Deconstructing Whiteness:
What on Earth does that Mean? Afterword: A Foreign Language in a Foreign
Land? Or Learning to Speak Locally? Afterword: Critical White Theology
Al Barrett has been Rector of Hodge Hill Church (in east Birmingham, England) since 2010, and is author of Interrupting the Churchs Flow: a radically receptive political theology in the urban margins (2020) and co-author (with Ruth Harley) of Being Interrupted: Re-imagining the Churchs Mission from the Outside, In (2020).Jill Marsh served as Inclusive Church Implementation Officer for the Methodist Church in Britain (2020 2023) and is now Superintendent Minister in the Coventry and Nuneaton Methodist Circuit. She has published a number of articles and papers based on her University of Chester doctoral thesis Cosmopolitan Practical Theology and the Impact of the Norming of Whiteness (2020).Anthony G. Reddie is the Professor of Black Theology in the University of Oxford, a historic first ever appointment. He is also the Director of the Oxford Centre for Religion and Culture in Regents Park College, in the University of Oxford. He is also an Extraordinary Professor of Theological Ethics and a Research Fellow with the University of South Africa. He is the first Black person to get an A rating in Theology and Religious studies in the South African National Research Foundation. He is the Editor of Black Theology: An International Journal.
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