Augustine on Memory. By Kevin G. Grove. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. xii + 265 pages. $99.00.

Abstract

power and privileges of its White members, especially White theologians. What may be more difficult to wrestle with, because of how Parker prophetically anticipates all that which Nichol’s death signifies, is how such protective strategies may indeed coincide with a culture of domination that is so tightly woven into our institutions of “law and order.” It is this very culture, whether within or without the church, that continues to deny so many persons, especially Black persons and other persons of color, frommaking it home. Reading Parker’s fierce and courageous book is one critical way of beginning to dismantle this sinful culture.