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Black Christ and Cross-Roads Jesus for white South African Christians

机译:黑色基督和白南非基督徒的十字路口耶稣

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A significant factor undermining real racial reconciliation in post-1994 South Africa is widespread resistance to shared historical responsibility amongst South Africans racialised as white. In response to the need for localised ‘white work’ (raising self-critical, intragroup historical awareness for the sake of deepened racial reconciliation), this article aims to contribute to the uprooting of white denialism, specifically amongst Afrikaans-speaking Christians from (Dutch) Reformed backgrounds. The point of entry is two underexplored, challenging, contextualised crucifixion paintings, namely, Black Christ and Cross-Roads Jesus. Drawing on critical whiteness studies, extensive local and international experience as a ‘participatory’ facilitator of conflict transformation and his particular embodiment, the author explores the creative unsettling potential of these two prophetic ‘icons’. Through this incarnational, phenomenological, diagnostic engagement with Black Christ, attention is drawn to the dynamics of family betrayal, ‘moral injury’ and idolisation underlying ‘white fragility’. ‘White fatigue’ is challenged by stressing the Biblical nature of Cross-Roads Jesus’ confrontational, ‘ugly’ portrayal of the systemic violence of apartheid and colonialism. It is also argued that a combination of Louw’s shocking portrayal of an enraged, emaciated township Jesus with the explicit depiction of white historical responsibility in Black Christ increases the counter-cultural potential of these icons to disrupt denial amongst white South African Christians. However, the realisation of this potential will require the cultivation of more capacity to work creatively with the intense emotional, moral, spiritual discomfort brought to the surface by this type of religious icon. Contribution: The article argues for a contextualised, South African engagement with the crucifixion of Christ, through an embodied interpretation of two anti-apartheid religious paintings. It makes a contribution to critical whiteness studies and practical theology and thus fits into the interdisciplinary, hermeneutical scope of HTS.
机译:在1994年后南非在1994年后南非的重大因素是南非人为白人举行的共同历史责任普遍抵制。为了回应本地化“白人工作”的需要(提高自我关键的历史历史意识,为了加深的种族和解的历史意识),本文旨在为白否认的拔除贡献,特别是南非荷兰语的基督徒(荷兰人) )改革了背景。进入点是两个悬而未爱的,具有挑战性的上下文的钉十字架画作,即黑色基督和十字路口耶稣。借鉴批判性白度研究,广泛的地方和国际经验作为冲突转型的“参与式的促进者和他的特定实施例”,提交人探讨了这两个预言的“图标”的创造性令人不安的潜力。通过这种含有黑色基督的化学,现象学,诊断啮合,引起了家庭背叛,'白脆性的道德伤害'和偶像的动态。 “白疲劳”受到强调十字路口耶稣对抗的圣经本质的挑战,这对种族隔离和殖民主义的系统暴力的“丑陋”描绘了。还有人认为,Louw令人震惊的悲惨乡镇耶稣与黑色基督中的白色历史责任明确描绘的令人震惊的乡村责任的组合增加了这些图标的反文化潜力,以扰乱白南非洲基督徒之间的拒绝。然而,这种潜力的实现将需要培养更多的能力与这种类型的宗教图标带到表面的强烈情绪,道德,精神不适。贡献:本文通过体现对基督的钉十字架,通过体现对两种反种族隔离宗教绘画的解释来争辩。它对关键白度研究和实际神学做出贡献,从而适合跨学科,诠释学范围的HTS。

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