Dr. J. Kameron Carter's lecture Christian Supersessionsim; or, The Jewish Question in Red, Black, and White considers perhaps the key question of Christian life and thought today: the question of the relation between Christian identity and racial identity (including nationalism), on the one hand, and the making of the modern, Western citizen, on the other. Carter argues that that these visions, indeed this fusion, of Christian and racial identity represents a new form of the Christian theological problem of supercessionism (the belief that Christians have displaced the Jewish people as being at the heart of God’s dealings with the world)—namely, its racialization. This lecture is The School of Theology’s annual Belford Lecture on Jewish-Christian Religions, and is open to the public. Read more.

Carter is associate professor of theology and Black Church Studies at Duke Divinity School. He received his Ph.D. in religious studies from the University of Virginia and is the author of the acclaimed book Race: A Theological Account. Carter investigates the complex forms of identity that have come to mark us all and engages questions of identity, politics, history, and more as part of the task of voicing a new religious and Christian social imagination for the 21st century.