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IF GOD STILL BREATHES WHY CANT I: BLM & BIBLICL AUTHRTY

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<P><Q>We have all had doctrines of White supremacist authoritarianism take up residency in our minds and bodies. What will we do to exorcise those demons?</Q> The author wasn’t just trained to be a biblical scholar; she was trained to be a White male biblical scholar. She is neither White nor male. Her experience of being taught to forsake her embodied identity in order to contort herself into the stifling construct of Whiteness is common among American Christians, regardless of their race, ethnicity, gender, or sexual orientation. This book calls the power structure behind this experience what it is: White supremacist authoritarianism. Drawing from her perspective as a Womanist New Testament scholar, the author describes how she learned to deconstruct one of White Christianity’s most pernicious lies: the conflation of biblical authority with the doctrines of inerrancy and infallibility. As she shows, these doctrines are less about the text of the Bible itself and more about the arbiters of its interpretation—historically, White males in positions of power who have used Scripture to justify control over marginalized groups. This oppressive use of the Bible has been suffocating. To learn to breathe again, the author says, we must <Q>let God breathe in us.</Q> We must read the Bible as authoritative, but not authoritarian. We must become conscious of the particularity of our identities, as we also become conscious of the particular identities of the biblical authors from whom we draw inspiration. And we must trust and remember that as long as God still breathes, we can too.</P>

If God Still Breathes, Why Can't I?: Black Lives Matter and Biblical Authority

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Front Cover.
Other Frontmatter.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Dedication.
Contents.
Foreword.
Preface.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction: What Is Your Relationship to the Bible?.
1: Stifled Breathing: Trained to Be a White Male Biblical Scholar.
2: White Supremacist Authoritarianism Is Not God&#x2019;s Breath.
3: Stop Gaslighting Me.
4: Moving from Stifled Breath to Full-Throated Faith.
Conclusion: Breathing Womanist Air.
Appendix.
Bibliography.
Index.

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If God Still Breathes, Why Can't I?: Black Lives Matter and Biblical Authority