{"id":33160,"date":"2013-08-25T00:41:51","date_gmt":"2013-08-25T00:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=33160"},"modified":"2013-08-25T00:41:51","modified_gmt":"2013-08-25T00:41:51","slug":"is-there-a-%e2%80%9cnew-black-theology%e2%80%9d-yes-and-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=33160","title":{"rendered":"Is There a \u201cNew Black Theology?\u201d Yes and No."},"content":{"rendered":"

Is There a \u201cNew Black Theology?\u201d Yes and No.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

brianbantum: theology, culture, teaching and life in-between<\/a>
\n2012-11-28<\/p>\n

Brian Bantum<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Theology
\nSeattle Pacific University<\/em><\/p>\n

Last week I had the distinct privilege of sitting on a panel with Willie James Jennings<\/a>, J. Kameron Carter<\/a>, and Edward Philip Antonio <\/a>with Joanne Terrell<\/a> responding. The panel was convened by the Black Theology Group at the American Academy of Religion Annual Meetings in Chicago, IL [Illinois] from November 16-20.<\/p>\n

The title of the panel was \u201cTowards a New Black Theology?: Going Back in Order to Move Forward!\u201d and centered upon the work of Jennings (The Christian Imagination<\/em><\/a>), Carter (Race: A Theological Account<\/em><\/a>), and myself (Redeeming Mulatto<\/em><\/a>) and how we intersect with and diverge from Black Theology. As a panel we did not directly address the nomenclature \u201cNew Black Theology\u201d which is not a terribly apt term for the work that we do, but it would also be a mistake to suggest that we are not indebted to Black Theological reflection either. The question of the name is less important than our hope that people might begin to enter into the problems and possibilities that animate our theological work. In the presentations we each, in our own way, sought to highlight both our connections to traditions and sensibilities of Black Christian thought as well as highlight how we are imagining a way forward…<\/p>\n

…What follows is the text of my presentation, \u201cTheology From and To: What is Mulatto Theology?\u201d…<\/p>\n

…What \u201cmulatto<\/a>\u201d in a mulattic theological framework suggests is not the valorization of the mixed race body, nor the marginalization of the mixed race body. Rather, \u201cmulatto\u201d gestures towards the situatedness of bodies in a racial world where a person and a people occupy multiple spaces at once. The life of discipleship is navigating these various realities, discovering patterns of unfaithfulness as well as the continual possibilities that stand before us. \u201cMulatto\u201d theology suggests that we stand in a space that is both transgressive and transgressed, that we cannot separate ourselves from the realities of our tragic beginnings, but that these realities do not exonerate us or protect us from perpetuating old terrors in new ways. We are children of mothers and fathers with complicated and tragic stories, but we cannot excise ourselves from them. A mulattic theology seeks to exist between these realities and discern patterns of faithfulness in their midst. Out of this reality a mulatto theology does not work to establish a cultural space or retrieve a tradition…<\/p>\n

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