On a Hill Far Away: Philosophy, Theology, and Black Male Death
摘要
Taking the biblical story of the man born blind in chapter nine of John’s Gospel as its point of departure, this essay argues that Black men experience a sort of emotional and psychological death in Christianity. Their death results from the imposition of utopian standards of masculinity foisted upon them through Black church culture. I argue that since intersectional feminism relies on anti-Black, misandrist sociological theories of Black men, its uncritical adoption through the concept of kyriarchy in feminist theology will likely result--and likely have already resulted--in homiletic and exegetical practices in Christianity that are harmful to Black men.