Gale Lecture "White Jesus, Black Jesus, Christian Jesus, Jewish Jesus"

300 W. 21st Street,Austin TX 78712

26 February, 2023

Description

Was Jesus a Jew or a Christian? Theologians on both sides have depicted Jesus either as a pious Jew seeking to reform Judaism or as the first Christian who introduced unique ideas and a new way of being a religious person. The debate between Jewish and Christian theologians over the religious identity of Jesus grew in intensity throughout the course of the nineteenth century and played an important role in the Nazi period. This lecture will review both sides of the debate and ask where we stand in our contemporary debates, including over Jesus as a person of color. does Christianity change if Jesus was Jewish, Black, or Asian?