![]() ![]() In the years since my supplemental seminary reading, CRT has attracted the ire of conservatives, who critique the theory as anti-white and anti-American. “In Christ this inherence, this hybridity, is not tragic, but rather the tragic is overcome.” Simple answers to the complex questions of how we form a more just society will not be sufficient in imagining new ways for humans to live into God’s beloved community. ![]() “Christ’s existence is the mulattic assertion of utter difference inhered within one person,” writes Bantum. ” Bantum’s book resonated with me in it, he argues that in the same way biracial people often hold two identities at once, Christ also held the two identities of God and man. Bored with all the white, theology books that’d been assigned in my classes, I decided to read Brian Bantum’s Redeeming Mulatto: A Theology of Race and Christianity Hybridity, a book I’d learned about through theologian Jonathan Tran’s essay, “The New Black Theology: Retrieving Ancient Sources to Challenge Racism. I first learned of critical race theory during my first year in seminary. ![]()
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