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Before He Was White: Jesus, Mark, and the Politics of Inclusion (Candler School of Theology)
April 16 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
Join the Candler community for a lecture by Dr. Brian K. Blount, Alonzo L. McDonald Family Chair on the Life and Teachings of Jesus and Their Impact on Culture.
In this lecture, Blount will analyze cultural location and its impact on biblical meaning. How do readers configure Jesus when he is perceived through the ongoing and unfortunately obstreperous American dialogue about race? One of the most controversial components of this discussion has to do with Jesus’s own race and what his racial identity means for our understanding of his ministry. For what reason did God intervene in human history in the person and ministry of Jesus? And in what way does the racial lens through which we view Jesus shape the answer to that question?
Dr. Brian K. Blount is President Emeritus of Union Presbyterian Seminary, Richmond, VA and Charlotte, NC. He served Union in this capacity and as Professor of New Testament for 16 years. Prior to his call to Union, he served as the Richard J. Dearborn Professor of New Testament Interpretation at Princeton Theological Seminary for 15 years.
He has also served as the pastor of the Carver Memorial Presbyterian Church in Newport News, Virginia. He is the author and editor of numerous books, articles, and sermons, including Invasion of the Dead: Preaching Resurrection (2014) and True To Our Native Land: An African American New Testament Commentary (Second Edition, 2024).
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