Jesus/Jesus Christ

when writing about Christ, the masculine pronouns are, of course, correct. However, some people suggest eliminating unnecessary ones because "theological tradition has virtually always maintained that the maleness of Jesus is theologically, christologically, soteriologically, and sacramentally irrelevant" (Sandra M. Schneiders, Women and the Word). There have been few individuals in history as completely androgynous and inclusive as Christ, and it seems to do his message a disservice to over-insist on his maleness—or his usual and improbable whiteness. Theologian and biblical scholar Cain Hope Felder says the African origins of the people of the Holy Land have been ignored by European scholars. The image of Jesus as a white person was grafted onto the truth by European church leaders as a way of selling their theology to white people; "We're not saying he came from the Congo. But we are saying he was an average African-Asian man of his time." See also Christianity, God (Christian).