J. Kameron Carter replies to questions concerning his recent work Race: A Theological Account. Carter expounds on his thesis that the problem of whiteness in the west may be traced to roots in early Christianity’s split with Judaism, explaining that it was the biologization of the split between that created the white, Christian race, as opposed to the Jewish, oriental race. Throughout Carter counters historic Christianity’s culpability in the genesis of racial reasoning with ways in which a proper Christology may offer ways of conceiving identity that may avoid the violence inherent in the discourse of modern identity politics, finding specific application with gender and other instances of oppositional identity formation in the modern west.
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