Christian magazine ridiculed after insisting Jesus 'was Asian': 'Did you guys read the Bible?'
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Christianity Today's article describing Jesus as Asian angered Christians on social media who accused the outlet of ignoring Christ's Jewish ethnicity.
The photo essay featured nine pieces of artwork from Asian cultures depicting the Nativity. Jones claimed that by representing Jesus as Asian, Christian artists could portray a deeper "theological meaning" of "the universality of Christ’s birth." Kristine Parks is an associate editor for Fox News Digital. Read more.
"Some may object to depicting Jesus as anything other than a brown male born into a Jewish family in Bethlehem of Judea in the first century, believing that doing so undermines his historicity. But Christian artists who tackle the subject of the Incarnation are often aiming not at historical realism but at theological meaning," Jones wrote.