Esau McCaulley – Reading While Black

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Judaism, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 666 Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Dru's discussion with Dr. Esau McCaulley spans across matters of biblical theology, NT interpretation, the hermeneutics of the Black Church in America, and how his own biography has played into his scholarship. Reading While Black is a forceful and encouraging message to the Black Church that McCaulley has written so that non-Black readers can listen in and learn. Sho Baraka's blurb captures this book well for the OnScript audience: “Esau McCaulley is untying the Gordian knot that has kept Black Christians bound to theological ultimatums. This is a book for theologians who hope to play outside the trite sandboxes of their seminaries and for the practitioners who find themselves in need of a Black lexicon." The post Esau McCaulley – Reading While Black first appeared on OnScript.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Onscript podcast, your home for world-class conversations on scripture and theology,
0:08.0	where you get to meet some of the best in the field. Visit us at OnScript. Study. Say hello on Twitter at OnScript Podcast and stop by our Facebook page at facebook.com slash OnScript.
0:20.0	Hey everyone. Welcome back to the OnScript podcast. This is Matt script. Hey, everyone.
0:20.9	Welcome back to the OnScript podcast.
0:22.5	This is Matt Lynch.
0:23.3	I'm a co-host along with Matt Bates, Drew Johnson, Aaron Hymie, Chris Tilling, and Amy Brown Hughes.
0:28.9	We are so glad that you've tuned in for this episode.
0:32.5	We've got a very special guest today, Dr. Esau McCauley, who has written a very important and timely book called
0:40.5	Reading While Black, African American biblical interpretation as an exercise in hope.
0:46.6	And, yeah, Esau is one of the top New Testament scholars right now, and the fact that he's written this book I think is very
0:54.5	significant and so I hope you do listen carefully, take notes, read the book that he's written
1:02.1	and share it with friends because I think this is going to be a game changer in the field
1:08.4	of biblical interpretations so one of those books that we look back on and say, you know, that things shifted when
1:14.6	that book came out.
1:15.5	So I hope that's the case.
1:16.7	I hope you enjoy this episode.
1:18.2	Thanks so much for listening.
1:23.0	Welcome on script super fans.
1:25.2	Today with me is Dr. Esau McCulley, who is an assistant professor of New Testament at Wheaton College in Chicago land. He is also an Anglican priest. Are you a priest? Yes. You have to be a priest if you're in Ang Anglican Church of North America, a contributing opinion
1:44.3	writer to the New York Times. I've heard of that. His publications include Sharing and the
1:50.0	Sun's Inherentance, which is part of that, is that the T&T Clark New Testament series? Yeah, L&TS.
1:55.3	Yeah, L&TS series. And he's written, you've probably heard or seen his name in a byline at places like Christianity
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