To Light a Fire Under the Faith: How Malcolm X provoked Black Christianity towards Self-Reexamination

Coming from a different faith tradition, Malcolm X provoked Black Christianity to reexamine itself to address existential matters in practical theological terms as they pertain to the Black condition in the African Diaspora. Malcolm X embodied a lit fire under Black Christianity, which aimed to awaken its self-awareness of its complicit role in promoting White nationalism in religious garb. Malcolm derived an examination of the misuse of a major world religion that has historically manipulated human creatures to become docile and submissive to broader hegemonic structures, as contrary to God's will, by nature.