Christianity: "White Man's Religion?" NOT!!
By Walter L. Smith III (WS-3)
Ten chapters demolishing the "white man's religion" myth — recovering Christianity's Middle Eastern, African, and Asian origins, exposing the imperial and colonial distortions of the Western church, and reclaiming the faith's inherently anti-hegemonic, global character.
The Thesis
Christianity is historically and theologically a Middle Eastern, African, and Asian faith that predates and transcends Western hegemony; the narrative that it is a "white man’s religion" is a socio-political construct that ignores the church’s global origins and its inherently anti-hegemonic character.
The Chapter Journey
Roots in the Levant: Reclaiming the Semitic Christ
Dismantling the Eurocentric Jesus and recovering the first-century, anti-imperial Semitic identity of the faith.
Beyond Rome: The African and Asian Origins of the Church
Ethiopia, Egypt, India, and the Malabar coast — the church expanded South and East centuries before Europe.
The Imperial Trap: Constantine and the Conflation of Faith and Power
How the cross was exchanged for the crown, and why the Gospel must be decoupled from empire again.
Colonialism vs. The Cross: A Necessary Historical Distinction
The plunderer's liturgy is not the Gospel — the faith arrived with the colonizer, but not from him.
Theology of Liberation: The Bible as a Tool for the Oppressed
From the Exodus to the Resurrection, Scripture reads as a subversive, decolonial instrument that breaks chains.
Global South Explosion: The Center of Gravity Shifts
The de-Westernization of the Gospel as the demographic heart of Christianity moves South and East.
The Imago Dei: A Biblical Cure for Racial Hierarchies
The radical Genesis equality of all humanity — and the de-centering of Western supremacy at the root.
Cultural Translation: Christianity as an Indigenized Faith
The logic of the Incarnation: the Gospel is at home in every culture on earth, and owned by none.
The Danger of Cultural Capture: Protecting the Gospel from Tribalism
Guarding against the idolatry of the tribe through apostolic boundary-breaking and non-conformity.
A Future Unbound: Christianity as a Global Promise
The church as a global commons — the radical hope of a faith that has always belonged to all nations.
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