It is this social matrix that defines American society. As the hierarchy descends, the rungs become less powerful until the bottom is reached where the weak and powerless reside. Wink describes this system as an evil hierarchical social construct with the powerful occupying the top rung. This book engages Walter Wink's conception of the Domination System and directs its focus to the black church and black Christians. It has historically imposed its biblical hermeneutic, scriptural exegesis, and cultural morality upon the Black church, and thereby reduced the Black church to a mere echo chamber of the white church, promoting the needs and values of the white community to the negation of its own. White evangelical theology controls most Black churches by defining for them the nature of God, the identity of Jesus, the content of the gospel message, and the function of the church. This book, however, is directed toward Black Christians to demonstrate to them the chilling reality that the Black church in America has largely adopted the aforementioned theological constructs to inform their ministries and, by doing so, embrace a racist ideology that has historically energized white domination of Black people.
His aim was to educate them on how their predecessors wove into the fabric of their Christian expression theologies that justified the supremacy of whiteness and inferiority of blackness and how those ideologies remain in place today. Jones’s book White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy on American Christianity, he primarily confronts white Christians about the brutal history upon which white Christianity was founded and emerged in America. This book does not change the biblical text but it will change how you understand it.In Robert P. He also shares historical images from the ancient catacombs that vividly depict the true likeness of the biblical Israelites. Williams also presents historical evidence that links some in the African-American community to the Lost Tribes of Israel. Williams uses facts from the Bible, well-respected historians, scientists, and DNA evidence to prove that not only were Black people comprised the biblical Israelite community.
Williams makes a significant contribution to this conversation by answering the difficult questions this generation fearlessly poses. Young people are becoming increasingly curious as to what role, if any, did people of African descent play in biblical history? Or, if the Bible is devoid of Black presence, and is merely a book by Europeans, about Europeans and for Europeans to the exclusion of other races and ethnicities?Dr. This generation doesn't hesitate to question the validity of the Scriptures, the efficacy of the church and even the historicity of Jesus. We live in an age when young Christians are asking tough questions that previous generations would dare to ask.
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