Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-2013
Publication Title
Theological Studies
Volume
74
Abstract
Racism/white supremacy is seemingly ineradicable, despite its contradictions to the gospel and American ideals. James Baldwin perceived the reason: whites' fears of their own mortality. He did not demonstrate the truth of his claim, but Terror Management Theory (TMT) provides empirical confirmation for it. The Church has declared reconciliation to be the heart of its mission. So TMT must shape its new, effective strategies, like the processes that produced the two influential pastoral letters in the early 1980's.
Issue
4
Recommended Citation
Nilson, Jon. "James Baldwin's Challenge to Catholic Theologians and the Church." Theological Studies 74, no. 4 (December 2013): 884-902.
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