The Whitewashing of Christianity

A Hidden Past, a Hurtful Present, and a Hopeful Future

By: Jerome Gay

Narrated by: Donald Gadson Jr.

Length: 8 hrs

Publisher's summary

The Whitewashing of Christianity is informative, insightful, and inspirational, telling a history that's often hidden, ignored, revised, or unknown. Confrontational, but not combative, it details how the American church has helped create and maintain the false narrative that Christianity is a White man's religion and how it has presented almost every person in Scripture and most of Africa's theologians and martyrs as White men and women. You will be given countless references that chronicle what whitewashing is, how it has been maintained, the negative effects it has caused, and more importantly, how we can stop it.

The Whitewashing of Christianity:

• Takes you on a historical, sociological, judicial, and religious journey of how Christianity has been whitewashed
• Addresses the negative effects of whitewashing and how many view Christianity as a religion of oppression
• Presents a full narrative of redemptive history, which finds it roots in Africa
• Highlights African theologians, philosophers, teachers, and martyrs
• Addresses claims from those that oppose Christianity with sources, Scripture, and historical facts
• Equips people on how to engage inaccurate claims of Christian history and slavery
• Addresses the concerns of those that think Christianity is not an indigenous faith of people of African descent
• Equips churches and organizations with ways to combat whitewashing and move in unity

The Whitewashing of Christianity leaves us with hope that what's been done historically can be changed. It is compelling, not combative and written from a place of love and desire to fight for presenting Christianity in a diverse way and not a culturally monolithic one. Gay challenges popular views that are historically unfounded and issues a challenge that needs to take place within the Christian church. While challenging and eye-opening, you'll be made aware of a hidden past of accomplishments and contributions of Africa, confronted with a hurtful present of whitewashing effects.

©2021 Jerome Gay, Jr. (P)2021 Jerome Gay, Jr.

Excellent and necessary reading material for all.

Excellent and necessary reading material for all. However, I must correct the author's statement that Ethiopia was the first non-Jewish conversion. The truth is that Ethiopia practiced Judaism going back to Queen Sheba when Queen Sheba embraced the God of Israel after visiting King Solomon. 1 Kings 10-11,2 Chronicles 9. Ethiopia was the first nation to embrace both Judaism and Christianity. Hence, the reason Jesus mentioned Ethiopia by name. See Matthew 12:42. Ethiopia is the cradle of life and foundation of the Abrahamic Faith, which includes Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. That truth should be clarified.

important for the whole of Christianity

if you are in any way interested in deconstructing and removing oneself from your centric theological concepts and thought this is a must read. the author painstakingly goes through the ideas of why and how Christianity was whitewashed. and provides poignant answers to the house the what's the wise we should make sure that we understand the correct historical regional and theological concepts of the bible. it is important that we realize that Africans specifically in Northern Africa were crucial to the development of theology and ultimately to the development of Christianity.

Great story

At times the audio jumped. some thoughts were not complete because of this. I don't know who is at fault for the poor audio quality but please fix the glitches in the system. for that reason only I recommend the print version.

Excellent Book

Pastor Jerome did an incredible job with this one! I thoroughly enjoyed this book and I plan on listening again

Glory to God for this book!

I'm very thankful for this book and for the Urban
Apologetic community. All of the information is always exegeted well, kept in context, and restores dignity back to our communities.Keep fighting the good fight! Glory to God!

I enjoyed this book tremendously

In the past when the country has been in an uproar over Racial issues , as an African American man in a predominantly white church, I've been a bit lost for effective ideas and solutions to remedy the problems, with this book I am no longer lost , I can now point to a resource to help identify and remedy our Racial Issues in the body of Christ and continue to be the source of Hope for the world.

I embrace the challenge

This book was a challenging book to read. It forced me to rethink many things that have been indirectly taught to me throughout my life. I highly recommend this point though. It will make you uncomfortable but it will teach you the truth about many things Christianity has taken for granted.

Excellent Content, Poor Recording

This recording is incomplete. Chapters 7, 9 and the conclusion end mid-sentence. In other chapters, the sentences and phrases repeat accidentally. I would avoid this title until Audible fixes the recording.

The book itself, however, is excellent. Gay’s thoughts are clear and full of wisdom. He makes unassailable arguments about how white centering has damaged the Church and defamed the Gospel. This is a title every Christian…especially my fellow White Christians….should read.

Beautifully written

This was THE best book I have read on the subject. So thorough and I especially think this should be a mandated read in allllll Seminary schools.

Persons of African descent are leaving the faith in droves due to intellectual laziness and historical inaccuracies depicted in written and oral media. This book was not written to incite white guilt, but to highlight African contributions to church history in efforts to restore dignity and significance for black persons while reading Scripture. This is not a black issue but a church issue as we are all made in the image of God. God was intentional in presenting this throughout Scripture and unfortunately some of His followers have attempted to distort this fact. Whitewashing Christianity addresses these systemic issues with boldness and truth.

I’m in awe and even more in love with the Gospel after reading this book! 10/10 and I don’t say that lightly.

Excellent book

This is one of the most informative books that I have every read. As a believer for more than 40 years, I have gained so much incite on the contributions of African in the Bible. Thank you so much Jerome Gay for writing this book.