A journal of academic theology

Jon Nilson

JAMES BALDWIN’S CHALLENGE TO CATHOLIC THEOLOGIANS AND THE CHURCH

Racism/white supremacy is seemingly ineradicable, despite its contradictions to the gospel and American ideals. James Baldwin perceived the reason: whites’ fears of their own mortality. He did not demonstrate the truth of his claim, but Terror Management Theory (TMT) provides empirical confirmation for it. The Church has declared reconciliation to be the heart of its

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