Black Theology and the Menace of Racial Apocalypse

Cyril Orji is a professor of systematic theology and world Christianity at the University of Dayton.

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentIntroduction1. The Seven Horse Riders of Racial Apocalypse A Statement of the ProblemRecovering the Heroic Virtues and the Poetic Imagination of James BaldwinNaming the Seven Horse Riders of Racial ApocalypseConclusion2. The Perplexing Matter of Black TheologyContext of Black Theology and the Category of MeaningWhy the American Situation Finds the Term "Black" AppropriateMediating Writers and Theologians(a) James Baldwin(b) James H. Cone(c) J. Deotis Roberts(d) Katie Geneva CannonShift Towards a Second WaveConclusion3. The Nature of Prejudice: A Psychological and Theological UnderstandingWhy Black Theology Has Not Paid Attention to the Data of ConsciousnessPrejudice: A Provisional Judgment?What an Application of Lonergan's Notion of Common Sense to Critical Race Theory Yields for Race DiscourseThe Four Kinds of Common Sense Bias(a) Dramatic Bias(b) Individual Bias(c) Group Bias(d) General Bias of Common SenseThe Structures of SinHow Black Theology Might Appropriate and Use Lonergan's Notion of BiasConclusion4. The Karen Phenomenon and the Conceptualist Problem of White Privilege DiscourseA Truncated DiscourseEngaging the Normative View of White PrivilegeThe COVID-19 World and the Quest for an Explanatory DefinitionKaren and Systemic RacismWhite Privilege: A Theological Problem for Black TheologyConclusion5. Implicit Bias and the Zero-Sum Game ProblemThe Perduring Myth That Blacks Pose a Racial ThreatThe Recurring Problem of Dramatic BiasIt Is Not Microaggression but Dramatic BiasImplicit Bias and the Cycles of Decline: Structural InjusticeConclusion6. Overcoming Racism and ConversionConversion: A Resistance against ResistanceThe Five Dimensional Conversion Process (5D-C Process)(a) Religious Conversion(b) Moral Conversion(c) Intellectual Conversion(d) Affective Conversion(e) Psychic ConversionConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex