Ethics of Naming God

 Week 1 with Emily was my first theological class in my life since I’m not from a theology background. I learnt many things how to read bible, how to engage with God, and so on. It was wonderful week I will say because we have a delightful thought provoking class from Emily.

I was reflecting on the Ethics of Naming God, because till that I believed the God is white colour with long hair and blue eyes,  I got a clear clarification after the class. She finished the class with a quote from James Cone, 

We've got a lot of white images of Christ. In reality, Christ was not white, not European. To see Christ as black is important to the psychic and to the spiritual consciousness of black people who live in a ghetto, in a white society in which their lord and saviour looks just like people who victimise them. God is whatever colour God needs to be in order to let people know they're not nobodies, they're somebodies".

“The African Black Jesus”


"Jesus in Varanasi" by Frank Wesley (from the family's collection c.2014)


See http://indigenousjesus.blogspot.com/2011/08/indian-artist-frank-wesley.html

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  1. CWMTIM2023July 10, 2023 at 6:58 PM

    Look for some of the images of FRANK WESLEY - an indian painter who did some striking biblical illustrations

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    1. CWMTIM2023July 10, 2023 at 6:59 PM

      https://www.google.com/search?sxsrf=AB5stBio8Uqzn3Ljkz9dVZgCyF6HYNYR3g:1689040731035&q=frank+wesley+exploring+faith+with+a+brush&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiNgaOGx4WAAxUTwjgGHU3UDzAQ0pQJegQIDBAB&biw=1254&bih=688&dpr=2#imgrc=n999tDYyjtlbgM

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    2. CWMTIM2023July 10, 2023 at 7:00 PM

      https://indiaartsmovement.wordpress.com/2015/09/25/frank-wesley-rediscovering-the-global-artist-from-azamgarh/

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