When God Became White by Grace Ji-Sun Kim

When God Became White by Grace Ji-Sun Kim

When Western Christians think about God, the default image that comes to mind is usually white and male. How did that happen?

Christianity is rooted in the ancient Near East among people of darker skin. But over time, European Christians cast Jesus in their own image, with art that imagined a fair-skinned Savior in the style of imperial rulers. Grace Ji-Sun Kim explores the historical origins and theological implications of how Jesus became white and God became a whitemale. The myth of the white male God has had a devastating effect as it enabled Christianity to have a profoundly colonialist posture across the globe. Kim examines the roots of the distortion, its harmful impact on the world, and shows what it lookslike to recover the biblical reality of a nonwhite, nongendered God. Rediscovering God as Spirit leads us to a more just faith and a better church and world.

Kim, Grace Ji-Sun: - Grace Ji-Sun Kim is an ordained minister of word and sacrament within the PC (USA) denomination. She received her MDiv from Knox College (University of Toronto) and her PhD from the University of Toronto. She is Professor of Theology at Earlham School of Religion and is the author or editor of 19 books, most recently, Reimagining Spirit, and Keeping Hope Alive. Englewood Review of Books listed Reimagining Spirit as one of the Best Theology Books of 2019 and Intersectional Theology co-written with Susan Shaw as one of the Best Theology Books of 2018. Kim served on the Board of Directors for the American Academy of Religion as an At-Large Director. She served on the American Academy of Religion's (AAR) Research Grants Jury Committee and was co-chair of AAR's steering committee, Women of Color Scholarship, Teaching and Activism Group. She sits on the editorial board for the Journal for Religion and Popular Culture and is a referee for 3 journals: Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Religion, Journal of Religion and Popular Culture, and The Global Studies Journal. She is an Advisory Board Member for the Center for Reconciliation at Duke Divinity School. She is honored to be included in the Englewood Review of Book's list of Ten Important Women Theologians That You Should Be Reading and to be included in their list of books to read under Our God is Too White? Diversifying our Theology.

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ISBN 13	9781514009390
Title	When God Became White
Author	Grace Ji-Sun Kim
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	InterVarsity Press
Year published	2024-05-07
Number of pages	200
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