Rediscovering Early African Christianity | Courageous Conversations ’21
Jude 3 Project
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The Impact of Colonialization
Even in antiquity, there was a belief that blackness equated sin and depravity. So these anti black sentiments are in white christianty, european christianity, judaism and islam from the mediaeval period. The sad reout is because of sin, white folks grabbed hold of that white image of jesus and said, no, this is the only way he can look. That's how it became whitewashed. But when constantine romanians began to articulate christianity as being 'hellenistic', they were able to depict JESUS in greek terms.
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