A Hermeneutical Approach against Whiteness

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" A Hermeneutical Approach against Whiteness "
Shannon Nicole Smythe

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1073315
Doc. No	:	LA116944
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15697312-01303008‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Shannon Nicole Smythe
Title & Author	:	A Hermeneutical Approach against Whiteness [Article]\ Shannon Nicole Smythe
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Journal of Reformed Theology
Date	:	2019
Volume/ Issue Number	:	13/3-4
Page No	:	199–214
Abstract	:	This article provides a constructive reading of Barth’s interpretation of Romans 2 in the Römerbrief in conversation with his treatment of the sinful human attempt to construct a worldview in opposition to the saving activity of Jesus in Church Dogmatics IV/3. I argue that dialectical theology provides Western Christianity with a hermeneutical approach against whiteness grounded in a Reformational theology of justification by faith alone. In this way, dialectical theology is a resource for constructing Christian identity free of whiteness as well as for carving out new space for a decolonial option within Christian theology.
Descriptor	:	Christian identity
Descriptor	:	decoloniality
Descriptor	:	dialectical theology
Descriptor	:	General
Descriptor	:	History of Religion
Descriptor	:	Karl Barth
Descriptor	:	Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	Theology and World Christianity
Descriptor	:	whiteness
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15697312-01303008‬