God in Our Image: Race Reflected in the Black Christ of Daule

Authors

Jessica Leu, Loyola Marymount University

Publication Date

2021

Keywords

El Cristo Negro de Daule, Black Christ, Ecuador, Theological Aesthetics, Asombro, Wonder, Black Theology, Critical Race Theory

Abstract

This paper examines El Cristo Negro de Daule in the context of theological aesthetics. It explains El Cristo Negro as a religious symbol that evokes asombro, or wonder, that then dismantles the illusion of control and omnipotence in us as described by Cecilia González-Andrieu’s Bridge to Wonder: Art as the Gospel of Beauty. As a religious symbol that reconstructs perceptions of the world and one another, this is a paper influenced heavily by liberation theology. The paper also analyzes the impact of a White Christ on Black peoples of the U.S, and it operates within the framework of Black Christology and Critical Race Theory (CRT).

Recommended Citation

Leu, Jessica (2021) "God in Our Image: Race Reflected in the Black Christ of Daule," Say Something Theological: The Student Journal of Theological Studies: Vol. 4: Iss. 1, Article 7.
Available at: https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/saysomethingtheological/vol4/iss1/7