The existential demands of race speak to the necessity of conceptualizing what race is in conjunction with what it means to be human. Both meanings intersect epistemologically and phenomenologically, such that what race is informs what it means to be human as much as what it means to be human informs what race is. In this way, “blackness” becomes both the concept and the embodiment of what race is and what it means to be human. Theological anthropology presents a framework by which “what race is” as a concept can be distinguished from “what it means to be human” as an embodiment. This distinction is calibrated through a theologizing about God from the meaningfulness of “what it means to be human” beyond “what race is.” More importantly, this differentiation is respectively between “what race is” in theory and “what race is” in praxis as what it means to be human, to the extent that what becomes specifically existential in the meaningfulness of race is translated by what becomes generally existential in the meaningfulness of human embodiment.

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种族的生存需求：神学人类学的对话

种族的生存要求表明，必须概念化种族与人类的含义相结合。两种含义在认识论和现象学上都是相交的，因此种族是什么才是人类的意思，而种族是什么才是人类的意思。这样，“黑人”既成为种族的概念，又成为人类的象征，体现了人类的意义。神学人类学提出了一个框架，通过该框架可以将作为概念的“什么是种族”与作为一个实施例的“意味着人类是什么”区分开来。这种区分是通过对神的神学论证而来的，它是从“什么是人类”到“人类意味着什么”的意义。更重要的是，