Black Lives Matter to Jesus
The third evangelist makes Black-skinned people central to his claim in Luke and Acts that the gospel of Jesus is restoring the children of God. Within Luke''s literary environment, the identity of the children of God was linked to national/ethnic identity. Many Jewish texts argued for the Jews'' position as God''s children because they are bound to God by covenant; they are God''s firstborn. But ...
The third evangelist makes Black-skinned people central to his claim in Luke and Acts that the gospel of Jesus is restoring the children of God. Within Luke''s literary environment, the identity of the children of God was linked to national/ethnic identity. Many Jewish texts argued for the Jews'' position as God''s children because they are bound to God by covenant; they are God''s firstborn. But ...
