Predominantly, they view white domination as fundamentally ordained by the God of the Bible, and use a racist biblical hermeneutical interpretation of Scripture to support their position. Its function is to help sustain domination systems and preserve the supremacy of whiteness at the top of the social hierarchy. This book argues that white evangelical theology which emerges from this social matrix provides biblical justification for domination. Their theologies empower them to struggle against this system while advocating for its deconstruction, where all can share power and access. In subjugated communities’-Blacks, Latinos, women, LGBTQ-their theological positions inherently recognize the Domination System and the damage it inflicts upon them. From this social matrix emerges theological constructs.
In her book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, Isabel Wilkerson agrees with Wink's notion of the Domination System and argues that in America, a ranking metric for a system of domination is race, with the white race occupying the apex and the Black race constrained to the bottom. It is this social matrix that defines American society. As the hierarchy descends, the rungs become less powerful until the bottom is reached where the weak and powerless reside.
Wink describes this system as an evil hierarchical social construct with the powerful occupying the top rung. This book engages Walter Wink's conception of the Domination System and directs its focus to the black church and black Christians. It has historically imposed its biblical hermeneutic, scriptural exegesis, and cultural morality upon the Black church, and thereby reduced the Black church to a mere echo chamber of the white church, promoting the needs and values of the white community to the negation of its own. White evangelical theology controls most Black churches by defining for them the nature of God, the identity of Jesus, the content of the gospel message, and the function of the church. This book, however, is directed toward Black Christians to demonstrate to them the chilling reality that the Black church in America has largely adopted the aforementioned theological constructs to inform their ministries and, by doing so, embrace a racist ideology that has historically energized white domination of Black people.
His aim was to educate them on how their predecessors wove into the fabric of their Christian expression theologies that justified the supremacy of whiteness and inferiority of blackness and how those ideologies remain in place today. Jones’s book White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy on American Christianity, he primarily confronts white Christians about the brutal history upon which white Christianity was founded and emerged in America.
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