Abstract
For the past five centuries we have lived in a theological age, described by some as the age of modernity. In this age people of color have been dominated by a pejorative Eurocentrism which tends to take a one-sided approach to theological scholarship, and
particularly to hermeneutics and ethics. From a Black frame of reference one observes that such an age has become increasingly marked by discursive rationality and an unholy arrogance rooted in centuries of White male privilege and power. Ethically, it is not simply the moral problematic of the arrogance of power. It is rather the power of arrogance masquerading as the surnmum bonum, the highest good for all people.