Reading While Black – 4
Chapter four is subtitled: ‘The Bible and the Pursuit of Justice.’
The burden of this chapter
‘is to outline the ways in which the Gospel of Luke contains a vision for the just society transformed by the advent of God that speaks to the hearts of Black Christians.’
Luke was a Gentile Christian. As such, his very place in the Christian community would have been a matter of some controversy at first.
Luke’s Gospel reflects the resolution of this early controversy by heralding the fulfilment of God’s age-old plan to create an international, multi-ethnic people for his own glory.…