Abstract
It is the thesis of this essay that the influence of certain theological and ethical doctrines of the major reformers, e.g., “priders of creation,” the theory of “two worlds,” and the “doctrine of sin,” has had a crucially negative effect on the major white American Protestant Christian theological ethicists as they have responded to the historic plight of black Christians in America.2 We shall examine some of the influences of these major doctrines on white theological ethics by looking at some of their responses to “race relations.”