{"product_id":"if-god-still-breathes-why-cant-i-black-lives-matter-and-biblical-authority-9780802879264","title":"If God Still Breathes, Why Can't I?: Black Lives Matter and Biblical Authority","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA challenge to the doctrine of biblical inerrancy that calls into question how Christians are taught more about the way of Whiteness than the way of Jesus\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Angela Parker wasn't just trained to be a biblical scholar; she was trained to be a \u003ci\u003eWhite male\u003c\/i\u003e biblical scholar. \u003cp\u003eShe is neither White nor male. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDr. Parker's 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\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ecalls the power structure behind this experience what it is: White supremacist authoritarianism. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing from her perspective as a Womanist New Testament scholar, Dr. Parker 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 Dr. Parker 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis oppressive use of the Bible has been suffocating. To learn to breathe again, Dr. Parker says, we must \"let God breathe in us.\" We must read the Bible as \u003ci\u003eauthoritative\u003c\/i\u003e, but not \u003ci\u003eauthoritarian\u003c\/i\u003e. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAngela N. Parker\u003c\/b\u003e is assistant professor of New Testament and Greek at Mercer University's McAfee School of Theology. In 2018, Dr. Parker received the? \u003ci\u003eJournal for Feminist Studies in Religion's\u003c\/i\u003e?ESF New Scholar Award for her article \"One Womanist's View of Racial Reconciliation in Galatians.\" In her research, Dr. Parker merges Womanist thought and postcolonial theory while reading biblical texts with real lived experiences of actual bodies.?\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50495303123218,"sku":"9780802879264","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_eabbca6d-402f-4639-88f1-037153b58bcf.jpg?v=1730679744","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/if-god-still-breathes-why-cant-i-black-lives-matter-and-biblical-authority-9780802879264","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}