Tag: Brian Bantum

  • Is There a “New Black Theology?” Yes and No. brianbantum: theology, culture, teaching and life in-between 2012-11-28 Brian Bantum, Assistant Professor of Theology Seattle Pacific University Last week I had the distinct privilege of sitting on a panel with Willie James Jennings, J. Kameron Carter, and Edward Philip Antonio with Joanne Terrell responding. The panel…

  • Passing as Black? Some Initial Thoughts… brianbantum: theology, culture, teaching and life in-between 2010-12-17 Brian Bantum, Assistant Professor of Theology Seattle Pacific University Thomas Chatterton Williams has written an intriguing article highlighting recent trends of multiracial children “passing as black.” If I let myself go I will write a short book on this before I…

  • In “Redeeming Mulatto,” Bantum reconciles the particular with the transcendent to account for the world as it is: mixed. He constructs a remarkable new Christological vision of Christ as tragic mulatto—one who confronts the contrived delusions of racial purity and the violence of self-assertion and emerges from a “hybridity” of flesh and spirit, human and…

  • The church exists in the wake of this racial world, and for this rea­son mixed bodies still trouble the waters. Mulattos were bodies that troubled the waters for all of us because they existed on both sides in a space that could not sustain such a possibility. That we no longer char­acterize mixed-race children as…

  • Brian Bantum Featured Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat Mixed Chicks Chat (Founders of the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival) Hosted by Fanshen Cox, Heidi W. Durrow and Jennifer Frappier Website: TalkShoe™ (Keywords: Mixed Chicks) Episode 254: Brian Bantum When: Wednesday, 2012-05-02, 21:00Z (17:00 EDT, 14:00 PDT) Brian Bantum, Associate Professor of Theology Seattle Pacific…

  • Multiracial People are Multiplying brianbantum: theology, culture, teaching and life in-between 2011-03-31 Brian Bantum, Assistant Professor of Theology Seattle Pacific University The New York Times recently published a story highlighting the increase in numbers of multiracial children in the United States. The numbers of self identifying multiracial children has doubled in the United States to…

  • Books: Black and white thinking The Christian Century 2012-01-26 Edward P. Antonio, Associate Professor of Theology and Social Theory Iliff School of Theology, Denver, Colorado Brian Bantum. Redeeming Mulatto: A Theology of Race and Christian Hybridity. Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press, 2010. 260 pp. Hardcover ISBN: 9781602582934. Redeeming Mulatto presents a complex argument about theology and…

  • The new black theology: Retrieving ancient sources to challenge racism The Christian Century 2012-01-26 Jonathan Tran, Assistant Professor of Religion Baylor University, Waco, Texas Read Edward Antonio’s review of Brian Bantum’s Redeeming Mulatto (subscription required) A couple years ago, when the Century asked some leading theologians to name five “essential theology books of the past…

  • Mulatto Theology: Race, Discipleship, and Interracial Existence Duke University 2009 290 pages Brian Keith Bantum, Assistant Professor of Theology Seattle Pacific University Dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Religion in the Graduate School of Duke University To exist racially “in-between,” being neither…

  • Bantum talks race, religion The Falcon Seattle Pacific University Volume 82, Issue 25 (2011-05-18) Nicole Critchley New book looks to redeem ‘mulatto’ Mulattos defy classification, said Assistant Professor of Theology Brian Bantum. Part black and part white, they do not fit neatly into any preconceived notions of our society—and that, in part, is what makes…