My professor in seminary, John Franke, used helpful language in the classroom to discuss the role white theologians and preachers have played in theological discourse in the church. According to him, white male theologians have often seen themselves as objective and neutral overseers of the Christian tradition. They function as “theological referees” for everyone else, while imagining their position as neutral and unbiased in the center of all the action. Believed to be “fair and balanced” and merely passing on the “classical” teachings of Christ, white men of means in the church label
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