GREENVILLE, Pa.—Thiel College Professor of Religion Dan Eppley, Ph.D. was quoted in an article on salon.com about the nationwide debate regarding critical race theory.
The article cites Eppley outlining one of the chief complaints among the Southern Baptists’ critical race theory opponents is that the theory “redefines” racism as something other than “personal animosity towards another based on race.”
“In their view, racism is only thinking badly of another person because of their race … Which is to say that structural racism either doesn’t exist, doesn't matter or isn’t something you can do anything about,” Eppley said in part.
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Eppley has taught at Thiel since 2007. He received Thiel College’s National Society of Leadership and Success Excellence in Teaching Award in 2019 and won the Distinguished Professor of the Year Award at Thiel College the same year.
Eppley got his doctorate in the history of religion in the west from the University of Iowa in 2000. He has a master’s degree in inorganic chemistry from Cornell University and a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Gustavus Adolphus (Minn.). Eppley’s research and published materials include a focus on 16th-century English priest in the Church of England and an influential theologian Richard Hooker.
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