![]() ![]() The insights of this book are not only applicable to a particular racial group in a particular country. But upon reading, one finds a deeper truth: that the Black ecclesial tradition and Black American biblical interpretation are gifts from God to the Church universal. The “we” then is, on its face, an exclusive “we” and one that I, as a Black man, recognize and relish. The invocation of the first-person plural is merely stylistic in some works, but in McCaulley’s text, it is profoundly specific: this is a brilliant and accessible work that is written to and for Black Americans in general, and Black American Christians more specifically. Esau McCaulley’s Reading While Black is marked throughout by reference to “we” interpreters of the Bible and “our” shared historical experience. ![]()
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