Lou Joseph, continuing to re-read and reflect on J. Kameron Carter’s Race: A Theological Account, has started to ask what does Carter’s work mean for biblical studies, particularly the Quests for Historical Jesus.
“It would be nice for a biblical or New Testament scholar in particular to explore how the Quest for the Historical Jesus as an intellectual movement in the West has contributed to what Carter has phrased “Race: A Theological Account.” In other words, how have NT scholars of the Historical Jesus Movement in Western countries participated–of course in the intellectual sense—in the theological narrative of race (about Jesus of Nazareth) and modernity’s racialist discourse and definition. Anyone who has been following the debase closely since the time of Renan, Schweitzer and others would find this topic both exciting–at least, it is exciting to me!– and useful to write a monograph on that subject.”
For more, see Celucien Joseph, J Kameron Carter: ON the theological problem of whiteness and the inadequacy of black liberation theology
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