The Christology behind The Black Messiah

Allan Boesak developed his ethics of the Black Messiah in the 1970s while he wrote his dissertation in Kampen, The Netherlands. These ethics said no to slavery, colonialism, apartheid, racism, and poverty as a consequence of oppression. Behind these ethics lies the Christological problem. Jesus Chri...

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Published in:Scriptura <Stellenbosch>
Main Author: Elmelund Petersen, Carsten 1956- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Univ. 2022
In: Scriptura <Stellenbosch>
Year: 2022, Volume: 121, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-19
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B African Theology / Black theology / Ethics / Messiah / Christology / Jesus Christus
IxTheo Classification:FD Contextual theology
HA Bible
NBF Christology
NCA Ethics
Further subjects:B Allan Boesak
B Christology
B Black Christ
B Black Ethics
B Black Messiah
B Black Theology
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Summary:Allan Boesak developed his ethics of the Black Messiah in the 1970s while he wrote his dissertation in Kampen, The Netherlands. These ethics said no to slavery, colonialism, apartheid, racism, and poverty as a consequence of oppression. Behind these ethics lies the Christological problem. Jesus Christ is truly God and truly human being, which is the universal Christian creed. What is the relationship between the universal confession to Jesus Christ as true God and true human being and the contextual confession to the Black Messiah? The Black Messiah is black for the black people for identification. Is the true humanity universal and the color contextual? The article gives a possible solution.
ISSN:2305-445X
Contains:Enthalten in: Scriptura
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.7833/121-1-2072