The Stigma of Color: How Racism Violates Christ’s Two Great Commandments

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A book for all Christians who wish to understand the origins of racism, its consequences, and how we can combat it in the church and in society.

“Her text expresses a profound cry for justice—a justice that comes from the heart of God who intimately knows injustice, indifference and oppression. The perversity of racism has taken root in the depths of Brazil, a Christianized country.” Lucas Louback

A book for all Christians who wish to understand the origins of racism, its consequences, and how we can combat it in the church and in society.

As the heart beats through systole and diastole, the Christian faith beats through love for God and love for our neighbor. Jesus’ great commandments drive the dynamics of discipleship: the first brings us closer to God, the second makes us like God. It is worth highlighting Jesus’ impressive statement that “on these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets” (Matthew 22:40). The Greek expression for “hang” is krematai, which literally means “hanging”: like a stone around the neck (Matthew 18:6) or like a man on the cross (Luke 23:39). In other words, everything in the Bible is hung on, depends on love. Racism definitely offends the two greatest commandments of Christ and violates the fundamental precept of love. After all, every human being bears the image and likeness of God. Thus, from the beginning of the church, Christ’s disciples were given the mission to go and make disciples of every ethne (Mt 28.18-20). In the Christian horizon, in the final vision of history, the apostle John saw the redeemed people from every tribe, language and ethnous (Rev 5:9).