Christology and Whiteness: What Would Jesus Do?

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This book explores Christology through the lens of whiteness, addressing whiteness as a site of privilege and power within the specific context of Christology. It asks whether or not Jesus’ life and work offers theological, religious and ethical resources that can address the question of contemporary forms of white privilege. The text seeks to encourage ways of thinking about whiteness theologically through the mission of Jesus. In this sense, white Christians are encouraged to reflect on how their whiteness is a site of tension in relation to their theological and religious framework. A distinguished team of contributors explore key topics including the Christology of domination, different images of Jesus and the question of identification with Jesus, and the Black Jesus in the inner city. Cover Title Copyright Dedication CONTENTS Notes on contributors Acknowledgments Foreword Introduction: framing the problem 1 What Jesus wouldn’t do: a white theologian engages whiteness 2 Grotesque un/knowing of suffering: a white Christian response 3 Jesus must needs go through Samaria: disestablishing the mountains of race and the hegemony of whiteness 4 The Black Church and whiteness: looking for Jesus in strange places 5 What would Zacchaeus do? The case for disidentifying with Jesus 6 Is Christ white? Racism and Christology 7 When a white man-god is the truth and the way for black Christians 8 Who belongs to Christ? 9 Upstart Messiahs, renegade Samaritans, and temple exorcisms: What can Jesus’ peasant resistance movement in first-century Palestine teach us about confronting “color-blind” whiteness today? 10 Jesus, whiteness, and the disinherited 11 Looking like me?: Jesus images, Christology, and the limitations of theological blackness 12 The (black) Jesus of Detroit: reflections on black power and the (white) American Christ 13 The mimesis of salvation and dissimilitude in the scandalous gospel of Jesus Index