And even for others, a clear affirmation of what their understanding and traditions have been saying for centuries. For some of us, this will be a startling wake-up call.
McCaulley does in this book what I wish all Christians would do in their lives, ignore neither history nor identity, neither scholarship nor affections, neither study nor experience. Then there are books like Reading While Black, which meld the most critical tools of analysis with the most crucial of human experiences and state boldly that an honest dialectic between the two is where the truth lies. At times they stretch academic credibility to fit their rhetorical agenda. But too frequently they are theologically, historically, linguistically, and culturally sloppy. These books speak to the current moment and leverage the zeitgeist. Then there are books that push hard for a new and renewed vision of Christianity that meets our contemporary context for an innovative and “evolved” expression of faith. They are “so heavenly minded, they’re no earthly good.” However, too frequently, these books are extrapolations and recapitulations of internecine debates that live in the parochial and esoteric. The good ones help us understand what was said by the original authors of the bible, and elucidate the history and culture of the compositional setting.
In Christian publishing, there are plenty of theology books. Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope.
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