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Reading While Black is a personal and scholarly testament to the power and hope of Black biblical interpretation. At a time in which some within the African American community are questioning the place of the Christian faith in the struggle for justice, New Testament scholar McCaulley argues that reading Scripture from the perspective of Black ...
Sep 1, 2020 · Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope. Paperback – September 1, 2020. by Esau McCaulley (Author) 4.8 2,059 ratings. Goodreads Choice Award nominee. See all formats and editions. Great on Kindle. Great Experience. Great Value.
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Jul 19, 2023 · Posted on. July 19, 2023. This award-winning book offers a personal and scholarly testament to the power and the hope of Black Biblical interpretation. Author | Professor | Public Theologian.
- Stepping Into The Conversation
- Learning from Black Ecclesial Interpretation
- Biblical Work For This Moment
- Formative Work For The Church
- Conversation Catalyst, Welcome Outcast
To appreciate what Reading While Blackoffers, one needs to catch the basic contours of this ongoing conversation about God’s eternal Word and black people’s earthly concerns. McCaulley satisfyingly situates the discourse both for those who’ve been, and also for those who’ve just started, listening. Broadly speaking, when it comes to this conversati...
Essentially, ReadingWhile Blackis the interpretive practice of this “hermeneutic of trust” applied to the hard questions—and historically dire circumstances—that black folks face in a racialized and fallen world (21). To demonstrate his favored form of black interpretive tradition—the habit of “Black Ecclesial Interpretation”—McCaulley turns reader...
As our churches and our nation yet again reckon with our racial history and the devaluing of black lives, the importance of Reading While Black can barely be overstated. Weary black believers—myself included—need the fresh, invigorating, biblical, and socially conversant exploration McCaulley gives to questions like: “Is the Bible a friend or foe i...
On a formative level, Reading While Black is valuable as a faithful model of biblical engagement and interpretive practice. If what they say about lessons being “more caught than taught” is true, then there’s much good to catch from Reading While Black. When McCaulley explores the church’s political witness, wondering why many traditions home in on...
Maybe the most commendable feature of Reading While Black is that it’s the best type of outcast: it doesn’t fit in the black progressive stream that subjects Scripture to prepackaged notions of liberation, nor in the fundamentalist stream that ignores the various concepts of justice in church history. Whereas previous books in this conversation hav...
Reading While Black | Video Curriculum | Esau McCaulley. READING WHILE BLACK. A streaming video course from Esau McCaulley at Seminary Now. Free Preview. African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope.
Sep 1, 2020 · Reading While Black. Esau McCaulley. 4.44. 5,303 ratings878 reviews. Goodreads Choice Award. Nominee for Best Nonfiction (2020) Growing up in the American South, Esau McCaulley knew firsthand the ongoing struggle between despair and hope that marks the lives of some in the African American context.
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Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Esau McCaulley (Author, Narrator), christianaudio.com (Publisher) 4.8 2,048 ratings.
