The head of the global Anglican Church, the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, believes that the time is due for the western Christian tradition to reconsider its portrayal of Jesus Christ as a white man.
The Anglican Church head also reiterated that although the image of Jesus Christ is not that which Christians worship, a physical representation of divinity “who became fully human” for the sake of all people, is a good reminder.
The universal image of Jesus Christ therefore, as a very white man, is universal at all because white men were able, through violence, to subjugate other peoples and impose on the subjugated a white man’s perspective.
Jesus Christ as a white man is therefore to most people, just the way things are and not plunderous propaganda.
If Christianity is an irredeemable western culture, it is hard to see how even a successful re-imagination of the iconography of Jesus Christ would help in the fight against white supremacy.
