Esau McCaulley is a New Testament scholar and Anglican priest, and currently serves as assistant professor of New Testament at Wheaton College in Wheaton, IL. This is a work against the cynicism of some who doubt that the Bible has something to say it is a work contending for hope.’ Reading While Black, Esau McCaulley, p6 I want to contend that the best instincts of the Black church tradition – its public advocacy for justice, its affirmation of the work of Black bodies and souls, its vision of a multiethnic community of faith – can be embodied by those who stand at the centre of this tradition. ‘I want to make a case that this unapologetically Black and orthodox reading of the Bible can speak a relevant word to Black Christians today.
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