Slavery, Reparations, and Theology course
The start of this new decade of the 21st century has caused us to reflect deeply on the history of the Church in the former British empire.
The death of George Floyd and renewed attention to institutional racism; the power of the Black Lives Matter Movement; the toppling of Edward Colston’s statue; the growing attention to contested histories enshrined prominent civic and ecclesial spaces; and the increasing calls for reparations from the African Caribbean cannot be ignored.
This online course is designed to help participants to think carefully and theologically around attention to slavery and reparations.
It aims to help participants:
- Engage critically in the history of Christian missions into the New World;
- Explore the theological, political, and economic justifications for enslavement;
- Explore theological connections between current realities of institutional racism and a long history of Anti-Black and Anti-African hermeneutics within British imperialism;
- Critically explore the various arguments and approaches to the idea of reparations in light of the history of enslavement using the British West Indies as an example
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