Bruce Riley Ashford is Senior Fellow in Public Theology at the Kirby Laing Centre for Public Theology (Cambridge, U.K.). He is the author of nine books, including Letters to an American Christian, The Gospel of Our King, and The Doctrine of Creation.
Critical Race Theory rightly calls us to recognize that the effects of sin can be magnified throughout the institutions and social structures erected by individuals, leading to social systems that embody unjust racial prejudices. However, by focusing on sin as embodied with or without intent in social systems, proponents of CRT lose sight of what makes sin so wrong in the first place: that individuals who bear a moral accountability before God break his moral law.
Date posted: 2021-06-13