Beatrice Institute Podcast Race and American Christianity with Anthony Bradley
Anthony Bradley is a professor of religious studies and director of the Center for the Study of Human Flourishing at the King’s College in New York City. He gives us a personalist analysis of the criminal justice system (touching on everything from architecture to food) and the Black Lives Matter movement. We discuss the relationship between Afro-pessimism, hope, and Eastern Christianity, and how Black experience informs trinitarian theology. We also talk about the dangers of missional narcissism and the invention of whiteness.
Success and living a quiet life
American eugenics movement
The invention of whiteness
Childhood trauma and educational outcomes
Trauma-informed youth ministry
Black experience and trinitarian theology
Missional narcissism
Exhaustion, tiredness, and race battle fatigue
Personalism and the criminal justice system
Restoration and rehumanizing
Local compassion
Christianity and Afro-pessimism
Links:
The Redneck Manifesto by Jim Goad
Hitler’s American Model by James Whitman
The Narcissism Epidemic by Jean Twenge
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates