Was Jesus White? The Real History Of What Color He Was - All …
Aug 21, 2023 · Historical scholarship shows that Jesus was a Middle Eastern Jew from the western Levant — so how did depictions of a white Jesus spread around the world?
The long history of how Jesus came to resemble a white European
Jul 22, 2020 · In a multiracial but unequal America, there was a disproportionate representation of a white Jesus in the media. It wasn’t only Warner Sallman’s Head of Christ that was depicted …
How Jesus became white — and why it’s time to cancel that
Jun 24, 2020 · CHICAGO (RNS) — The first time the Rev. Lettie Moses Carr saw Jesus depicted as Black, she was in her 20s. It felt “weird,” Carr said. Until that moment, she’d always thought …
Race and appearance of Jesus - Wikipedia
The early Latter-Day Saint church printed its first images of Jesus as a white man with blue eyes. According to Blum and Harvey, the blue eyes may have been intended to bolster Mormonism's …
Jesus was not white. Here’s why we should stop pretending he was.
Jun 26, 2020 · But White Jesus was what he had been taught by white priests. In Jesus, God became human, which means that we have to take Jesus's humanity seriously: he was a first …
Was Jesus a man of color? Why this question matters more than ever - CNN
Mar 31, 2024 · Blum says the image of a White Jesus has been used to justify slavery, lynching, laws against interracial marriage and hostility toward immigrants deemed not White enough.
Why Jesus’ Skin Color Matters - Christianity Today
In most of the Western world, Jesus is white. While Christ the Lord transcends skin color and racial divisions, white Jesus has real consequences.
The long history of how Jesus came to resemble a white European
Jul 18, 2020 · Prominent scholars and the archbishop of Canterbury have called to reconsider Jesus’s portrayal as a white man. As a European Renaissance art historian, I study the …
The long history of how Jesus became a white European
Jul 21, 2020 · Prominent scholars and the archbishop of Canterbury have called to reconsider Jesus' portrayal as a white man. As a European Renaissance art historian, I study the evolving …
How Jesus became white — and why it’s time to cancel that
Jun 25, 2020 · As protesters around the United States tear down statues of Confederate heroes and demand an accounting for the country’s long legacy of racism, some are asking if the time …