The Inaugural Robert Beckford Lecture

This inaugural lecture asks what kind of Christian thought is vital in a world marked by the resurgence of neofascism and the emergence of cryptic forms of reparations. These developments expose the limits of traditional theological categories, which too often remain silent before the realities of racial injustice and global inequality. Building on my earlier interventions—Dread as a lens for Christology and hermeneutics, and Exporcism as a practice of unmasking colonial spirits—I propose new critical perspectives drawn from Jamaican cultural concepts.