Indigenous Christologies

The image is “Sundancer Christ” by Fr. John Guiliani

Clarke, Clifton R. “Towards a Post-Missionary Oral Christology Among African Indigenous Churches in Ghana.” Journal of Asian Mission 6, no. 2 (2004): 245–64.

Donaldson, Laura E. “Native Women’s Double Cross: Christology from the Contact Zone.” Feminist Theology 10, no. 29 (2002): 96–117.

Lin, Hong-Hsin. “The Identification Approach to Salvation: The Chinese Indigenous Christology of Chao Tzu-Ch’en.” Taiwan Journal of Theology 26 (2004): 1–20. [Chinese language article]

Peelman, Achiel. “The Native American Christ.” In The Myriad Christ: Plurality and the Quest for Unity in Contemporary Christology, edited by T. Merrigan, and J. Haers, 315–28. Leuven: Peeters Leuven, 2000.

Rangiwai, Byron. “Karaititanga: Some Reflections on my Christology.” Te Kaharoa 11 (2018): 591–603.

Rountree, Te Aroha. “Once Was Colonized: Jesus Christ.” In Theology as Threshold: Invitations from Aotearoa New Zealand, edited by Jione Havea, Emily Colgan, and Nāsili Vaka’uta, 161–75. Lanham: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2022.

Sebastian, J. Jayakiran. “Fragmented Selves, Fragments of the New Story: Panikkar and Dalit Christology.” Exchange 41, no. 3 (2012): 245–53.

Skye, Lee Miena. “Australian Aboriginal Women’s Christologies.” In Hope Abundant: Third World and Indigenous Women’s Theology, edited by Pui-lan Kwok, 194–202. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2010.

Starkloff, Carl F. “Aboriginal Cultures and the Christ.” Theological Studies 53, no. 2 (1992): 288–312.

Te Kaawa, Wayne Manaaki Rihari. “Re-visioning Christology through a Māori Lens,” PhD diss., University of Otago, 2020.

Temme, Jon. “Jesus in the ‘New World’: North American Native Responses to the European Christ.” International Review of Mission 77, no. 305 (1988): 59–66.

Tinker, George E. “American Indians and Jesus: Reflections Towards an EATWOT Christology.” Voices from the Third World 22, no. 2 (1999): 59–78.

Twiss, Richard. “Rescuing Theology From the Cowboys: An Emerging Expression of the Jesus Way in North America.” Journal of NAIITS 10 (2012): 5–44.

Vashum, Yangkahao. Christology in Context: A Tribal-Indigenous Appraisal of North East India. New Delhi: Christian World Imprints, 2017.

Wilcken, John. “Christology and Aboriginal Religious Traditions.”  The Australasian Catholic Record 75, no. 2 (1998): 184–94.

Posts in this Series

• The Diverse, Rich, and Critical Imaging of Jesus Christ
• Ancestor Christologies
• Asian Christologies 
• Black Christologies
• Christology and Colour Symbolism
• Critiques of Western Representations
• Indigenous Christologies
• Latin American Christologies
• Liberationist Christologies
• Migrant Christologies
• Pasifika Christologies