813: Reading the Bible While Black: Dr. Esau McCaulley
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🗓️ 24 August 2020
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Summary
The Rev. Canon #EsauMcCaulley, PhD is a New Testament scholar and an Anglican Priest. He completed his doctoral studies at the University of St Andrews where he studied under the direction of N.T. Wright. His research and writing focus on Pauline theology, African American Biblical interpretation, and articulating a Christian theology of justice in the public square
His doctoral dissertation, called Sharing in the Son’s Inheritance, was published by T & T Clark in 2019. Sharing in the Son’s Inheritance looks at the role Jewish messianism played in Paul’s argument in Galatians that Jesus has made believers heirs in the Messiah to the Abrahamic promises.
His second book #ReadingWhileBlack: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope will be published by Intervarsity Academic press (September 1, 2020). Reading While Black looks at the tradition of African American biblical interpretation and argues that the Bible rightly understood and read from a decidedly black perspective can speak a word of hope to African Americans in the United States.
Alongside these more academic works, he writes popular pieces. He is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times. He has also appeared in outlets such as Christianity Today and the Washington Post. He is also the host of the Disrupters Podcast and functions as a Canon Theologian for his diocese.
Dr. McCaulley, currently, serves as assistant professor of New Testament at Wheaton College in Wheaton, IL. He is married to Mandy, a pediatrician and a Navy reservist. Together, they have four wonderful children.
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| 0:00.0 | All right. I've got Dr. Esau-McCau on the show today. |
| 0:05.0 | I can't, I've been reaching out to Esau for a while. |
| 0:09.0 | I've been wanting to have him on the podcast for a long time. |
| 0:12.5 | Esau is the real deal. |
| 0:15.6 | Okay, so Esau, Macaulay is an assistant professor |
| 0:19.6 | of New Testament studies at Wheaton College. He did his PhD under NT Wright, graduated several years ago. |
| 0:28.0 | His doctoral dissertation is called Sharing in the Sons inheritance, which was published by T&T Clark. He also has a forthcoming book called |
| 0:36.4 | Reading While Black, which is published by InterVarsity Press. He is also the editor of a forthcoming multi-ethnic commentary called |
| 0:45.6 | New Testament in color. Esau, Macaulay is also an Anglican priest. He is, he is, I could have talked to this guy for hours. |
| 0:57.7 | Esau is engaging. |
| 0:59.2 | He's funny. |
| 1:00.1 | He's pastoral. |
| 1:01.7 | He's academically wise he's nuanced |
| 1:06.0 | he's so good |
| 1:08.0 | I'm so excited about this conversation |
| 1:10.0 | I mean unfortunately I kept him a little longer that I promised I would have him on the |
| 1:14.7 | podcast for I could have talked up for so long I'm so excited for you to engage this |
| 1:18.1 | conversation it's awesome you're gonna learn so much hey if you want to support the show |
| 1:21.4 | go to the show notes there's stuff there you can look at. |
| 1:23.7 | I'm not going to waste any more of your time advertising my podcast. Let's get to know the |
| 1:28.9 | one and only Dr. Esau, McCulloch. Hey friends I'm here with Dr. Esau, Macaulay. |
| 1:53.0 | Esau is a biblical scholar, did a PhD under NT Wright, and is also an Anglican priest. |
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