A Black Theological Approach to Reconciliation: Responding to the 200th Anniversary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade in Britain

Abstract

This paper critiques the classical/dominant model of reconciliation as conceived within Christian theology, arguing that this particular approach is one that enables the power imbalances and structural frameworks between White power and Black marginality to remain unchanged. The author, a Black theologian in Britain, argues that an alternative, radical model of reconciliation to be found within Black theology offers greater opportunities for effecting reconciliation between Black and White, some 200 years following the abolition of the slave trade in Britain.