Critical Psalm Theory

In a detailed reflection at Mere Orthodoxy, William Murrell offers a trenchant criticism of my article "Evangelicals and Race Theory" (February). He makes an intriguing suggestion: Much of the debate over critical race theory derives from different understandings of what CRT is. While some see it primarily as a method (a mere academic activity), many of its critics see it as a metanarrative (a totalizing worldview), and still others as a mood (an affective response to perceived systemic injustice). A failure to distinguish among these three different expressions of CRT has led to the adoption of faulty reading strategies and misunderstandings.