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 ā including 300 shades of red alone.”
Ezigbo, Victor Ifeanyi, and Reggie L. Williams. āConverting a Colonialist Christ: Toward an African Postcolonial Christology.ā In Evangelical Postcolonial Conversations: Global Awakenings in Theology and Praxis, edited by Kay Higuera Smith, Jayachitra Lalitha, and L. Daniel Hawk, 88ā103. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2014.
GonzĆ”lez, Justo L. āThe Christ of Colonialism.ā Church & Society 82, no. 3 (1971): 5ā36.
Mackey, James Patrick. āCan Western Christology Prove More Flexible? Join a Family Rather Than Rule an Empire?ā Studies in World Christianity 1, no. 2 (1995): iiiāx
Pindi, Gloria, and Antonio De La Garza. āThe Colonial Jesus: Deconstructing White Christianity.ā In Interrogating the Communicative Power of Whiteness, edited by Dawn Marie D. McIntosh, Dreama G. Moon, and Thomas K. Nakayama, 218ā37. Routledge, 2018.
Woodley, Randy S. āMission and the Cultural Other: In Search of the Pre-Colonial Jesus.ā Missiology 43, no. 4 (2015): 456ā68.
Yamaguchi, Satoko. āRe-Membering Jesus: A Post-Colonial Feminist Remembering.ā 179ā99. 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
