A challenge to the doctrine of Biblical inerrancy that calls into question how Christians are taught more about the way of Whiteness than the way of Jesus Angela Parker wasn\'t just trained to be a Biblical scholar; she was trained to be a White male Biblical scholar.
Parker merges Womanist thought and postcolonial theory while reading Biblical texts with real lived experiences of actual bodies.?.
Parker received the? Journal for Feminist Studies in Religion\'s ?ESF New Scholar Award for her article "One Womanist\'s View of Racial Reconciliation in Galatians." In her research, Dr.
In 2018, Dr.
Parker is assistant professor of New Testament and Greek at Mercer University\'s McAfee School of Theology.
About author(s): Angela N.
And we must trust and remember that as long as God Still breathes, we can too.
We must become conscious of the particularity of our identities, as we also become conscious of the particular identities of the Biblical authors from whom we draw inspiration.
Parker says, we must "let God breathe in us." We must read the Bible as authoritative , but not authoritarian .
To learn to breathe again, Dr.
This oppressive use of the Bible has been suffocating.
Parker shows, these doctrines are less about the text of the Bible itself and more about the arbiters of its interpretation--historically, White males in positions of power who have used Scripture to justify control over marginalized groups.
As Dr.
Parker describes how she learned to deconstruct one of White Christianity\'s most pernicious lies: the conflation of Biblical Authority with the doctrines of inerrancy and infallibility.
Drawing from her perspective as a Womanist New Testament scholar, Dr.
This book calls the power structure behind this experience what it is: White supremacist authoritarianism.
Parker\'s experience of being taught to forsake her embodied identity in order to contort herself into the stifling construct of Whiteness is common among American Christians, regardless of their race, ethnicity, gender, or sexual orientation.
Dr.
She is neither White nor male.
A challenge to the doctrine of Biblical inerrancy that calls into question how Christians are taught more about the way of Whiteness than the way of Jesus Angela Parker wasn\'t just trained to be a Biblical scholar; she was trained to be a White male Biblical scholar
