Fellow ARP Minister and Erskine College professor, Dr. William Evans (with others) has written about the notions of "white guilt, white privilege, critical theory and intersectionality" found in secular academia. This article, Critical Theory and the Unity of the Church, shows us that we must return to Scripture and not rely on the bankrupt secular and Marxist categories that ultimately divide humanity.
Excerpt:
Some in the conservative Reformed community evince a laudable desire to
overcome racial injustice, but they often seek to understand racial
divisions by relying on categories drawn from the “critical theory” of
secular academia (e.g., notions of “white privilege,” “white guilt,”
“intersectionality,” and more broadly the power-analysis tradition that
stems from Marx, Foucault, and others) rather than from Scripture and
the Christian tradition. As a result of this uncritical borrowing, some
in the church are falling headlong into the divisive identity politics
that now plague the broader culture and particularly higher education.
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