The image is “Christ in Majesty” (1959) by Jan Henryk Rosen in the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Washington, DC. “One of the largest mosaics of Christ in the world, it measures 3,610 square feet and features 3,000 different shades of Venetian glass tiles – including 300 shades of red alone.”
Ezigbo, Victor Ifeanyi, and Reggie L. Williams. “Converting a Colonialist Christ: Toward an African Postcolonial Christology.” In Evangelical Postcolonial Conversations: Global Awakenings in Theology and Praxis, edited by Kay Higuera Smith, Jayachitra Lalitha, and L. Daniel Hawk, 88–103. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2014.
González, Justo L. “The Christ of Colonialism.” Church & Society 82, no. 3 (1971): 5–36.
Mackey, James Patrick. “Can Western Christology Prove More Flexible? Join a Family Rather Than Rule an Empire?” Studies in World Christianity 1, no. 2 (1995): iii–x
Pindi, Gloria, and Antonio De La Garza. “The Colonial Jesus: Deconstructing White Christianity.” In Interrogating the Communicative Power of Whiteness, edited by Dawn Marie D. McIntosh, Dreama G. Moon, and Thomas K. Nakayama, 218–37. Routledge, 2018.
Woodley, Randy S. “Mission and the Cultural Other: In Search of the Pre-Colonial Jesus.” Missiology 43, no. 4 (2015): 456–68.
Yamaguchi, Satoko. “Re-Membering Jesus: A Post-Colonial Feminist Remembering.” 179–99. Burlington, Isherwood, Lisa, and Kathleen McPhillips, eds. Re-Membering Jesus: A Post-Colonial Feminist Remembering Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2008.
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
