A
Call to Return to the Mainstream Reformation View of African American Slavery
by J. Parnell McCarter
Date 9/21/2020
It is to be lamented that so many professing
Reformed Christians have fallen into line with modern Babel’s view regarding
African American slavery in American history. We are not compelled to seek a
return to African American slavery in order to appreciate that Rev. Cotton Mather’s
analysis in the following work (available at https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/etas
) was essentially sound
and in line with Biblical doctrine:
The Negro
Christianized. An Essay to Excite and Assist that Good Work, the Instruction of
Negro-Servants in Christianity (1706)
Instead, many have swallowed a philosophical
view so contrary to Biblical doctrine as Critical Race Theory, and Critical
Theory upon which it is based:
"...Critical theory (German: Kritische Theorie) was first defined by Max Horkheimer of the Frankfurt School of sociology in his 1937
essay "Traditional and Critical Theory", in which it is described as
a social theory oriented toward critiquing and
changing society as a whole, in contrast to traditional theory
oriented only to understanding or explaining it. Wanting to distinguish
critical theory as a radical, emancipatory form of Marxist philosophy...He described a theory
as critical insofar as it seeks "to liberate human beings
from the circumstances that enslave them." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_theory
What in the world does a philosophy rooted in
Marxism have to do with Biblical Christianity? It is like trying to mix
oil and water.