The “New Black Theology” and the Dream of Post-Racialization

Teel, Karen

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“…As a theologian he was deeply committed to identifying and challenging racism and white supremacy in Christian thought and practice, instigating a field of theological work that continues to flourish. 85 Cone's work, and that of black theology more broadly, identifies the theological depth to which the roots of racism penetrate, and shows that at the very heart of Christian thought is a key site for overcoming theological supersessionism as a root of modern discourses of race. This theological depth must also be plumbed by IR scholars who wish to locate and challenge the roots of the colonial-modern world.…”

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Race, Theology, and IR: Thinking with Black Liberation Theologian James H. Cone

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2022

Millennium: Journal of International Studies

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This article introduces the work of black liberation theologian James H. Cone into the mutual silence between the study of race and the study of Christian theology in IR. Despite the theological roots of the colonial-modern idea of race, these areas of study in IR have mostly been approached separately. Cone’s thought responds to the complicity of white supremacy and Christianity, whilst theorising a theology of black liberation. It is thus witness and testament to the redemptive potential of a theological frame, inviting us to think beyond secular reason. Cone’s thought raises important theological questions about universality, a central stake for IR discussions of Christian theology. This article identifies supersessionism, the idea that Christianity supersedes both Judaism, and any particularity (as a potentially universal salvific community), as a key notion in the enlightenment secularisation of theological thought, and the development of a racialised colonial modernity that modelled itself in part on Christianity’s longstanding anti-Semitism. This article opens an engagement with Cone’s work for discussions of both Christian theology and race in IR, pointing to the innermost doctrines of Christianity as a site of tension at which race thinking and Christianity are connected, and at which they might be de-linked. Race, théologie et relations internationales : penser avec le théologien de la libération des Noirs James H. Cone

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Race, Theology, and IR: Thinking with Black Liberation Theologian James H. Cone

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2022

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Doing Pauline Theology

Driel¹

2021

Rethinking Paul

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On Metaphysics and Supersessionism

Mitchell

2023

J. Cont. Philos. Relig.

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Scholars, theologians and lay people are in the midst of a wave of vital conversations about the nature of Christian supersessionism and the possibility of a post-supersessionist theology. This paper seeks to contribute to these conversations by drawing out the presuppositions about evental relationship that underly supersessionistic habits of thought and their alternatives. This effort will proceed primarily through a critique of Alain Badiou’s supersessionistic reading of the Jewish/Christian evental relationship while attempting to salvage his formal concept of evental recurrence as a potential resource for post-supersessionist theology. The bulk of the paper is dedicated to this critique and salvage project. However, it will close with a series of brief reflections on how a non-teleogical metaphysics of evental recurrence might displace some of the teleological thought patterns that drive the dilemmas of supersessionism

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The “New Black Theology” and the Dream of Post-Racialization

Cited by 3 publications

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Race, Theology, and IR: Thinking with Black Liberation Theologian James H. Cone

Race, Theology, and IR: Thinking with Black Liberation Theologian James H. Cone

Doing Pauline Theology

On Metaphysics and Supersessionism

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