What Shall We Say About These Things? A Theo-Anthropological Reflection

Josiah Ulysses Young III

doi:10.52214/btpp.v7i1.12466

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Published Mar 1, 2024

DOI https://doi.org/10.52214/btpp.v7i1.12466

Josiah Ulysses Young III

Abstract

A discussion of COVID-19’s effects on the African American community and the white supremacism integral to Donald Trump’s administration. In responding to those events theologically, the essay suggests that anthropology, rather than “revelation,” grounds theology and thus deprivileges the Christian fundamentalism that has supported Trump. That Black folks’ future depends on their ethical praxis—qua “a love supreme”—rather than creation’s eschatological renewal is integral to the argument.

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Vol. 7 No. 1 (2021): Black Theology Papers 2021

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What Must We Say to These Things? Anti-Blackness in the Age of COVID-19

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Young III, J. U. (2024). What Shall We Say About These Things? A Theo-Anthropological Reflection. Black Theology Papers Project, 7(1). https://doi.org/10.52214/btpp.v7i1.12466

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